Legal Opinion · Dissent

R. K. O. Radio Pictures, Inc. v. Department of Education

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 1, 1954No. Nos. 33931, 33932 and 33981Published

1DissentHart, J.

The plaintiffs in the instant cases before this court claim that the Ohio Motion Picture Censorship Act has been declared invalid and unenforceable, under the Constitution of the United States, by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Superior Films, Inc., v. Department of Education, 346 U. S., 587, 98 L. Ed., 235, 74 S. Ct., 286. In my opinion, the federal Supreme Court did not specifically or otherwise hold that the Ohio statute creating the Ohio censoring authority and giving it power to censor motion picture films before publication was unconstitutional, and there is no…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  2. Kovacs v. CooperSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  3. Cox v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
  5. Feiner v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1951

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