Commercial Pictures Corp. v. Board of Regents

I concur for affirmance.

We review the refusal by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, acting under sections 120 and 122 of the State Education Law, to license the exhibition in New York State of the motion picture ‘ ‘ La Ronde ’ ’. Section 122 directs that every submitted motion picture film be licensed “ unless such film or a part thereof is obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious, or is of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime ”. The stated ground for the Regents’ refusal here was that “ La Ronde ” was “ immoral and tended…