Legal Opinion
Taylor v. State Ex Rel. Kirkpatrick
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 20, 1975PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BROCK, Justice.
The issues in the three captioned causes are identical and involve the construction and validity of Chapter 510, Public Acts of 1974, regulating obscenity. We are deciding all of them in this single opinion. In each case the trial court has found certain motion picture films being exhibited to the public by the appellants to be obscene according to the provisions of Chapter 510 of the Public Acts of 1974, codified as T.C.A. §§ 39-3010 — 39-3022. Under the provisions of that Act, the Court has permanently enjoined the defendants from further exhibition of the films and…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Schmerber v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Boyd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Miller v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Hamling v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by21 opinions
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- State v. DavisCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1983
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- State v. PendergrassCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1989
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