Rd-Dr Corporation v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, • two corporations engaged, one in the business of producing, the other in the business of distributing, motion pictures, brought this suit to restrain the enforcement of the provisions of the code and censorship ordinance of the City of Atlanta, and for a judgment declaring its provisions unconstitutional -and void.
The claim was not narrowly based upon the particular terms of the particular ordinance, the particular manner of its enforcement, or the particular motion picture subjected to censorship. It was based broadly upon the claim that, under the due…
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