Legal Opinion
Advocates for the Arts v. Meldrim Thomson, Jr., Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 31, 1976No. 75-1346PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether the first amendment permits the Governor and Council of New Hampshire to refuse a grant-in-aid to a literary magazine because they regard a poem appearing in a past issue of the magazine as an “item of filth.” The district court, treating the defendants’ motion to dismiss as a motion for summary judgment under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b) and 56, found no first amendment violation. 397 F.Supp. 1048 (D.N.H.1975). We agree.
In 1965 Congress established the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, 20 U.S.C. § 951 et seq., in…
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