Legal Opinion
Times Film Corp. v. Commissioner of Public Safety
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 6, 1955PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
On the merits this case is governed by Brattle Films, Inc. v. Commissioner of Public Safety, ante, 58. The petitioner, which is a distributor of motion pic ture films and the owner of distribution rights in two specified films, brings this petition for a writ of certiorari to quash the action of the respondent in failing to approve in writing the films for exhibition on the Lord’s day pursuant to G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 136, § 4. The case was reserved and reported without decision by a single justice.
The respondent contends that the only action of his which is here brought into question relates…
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- Mayor of Gloucester v. City Clerk of GloucesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1951
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- Alves v. Town of BraintreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1960
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