Mutual Film Co. v. Industrial Commission
District Court, N.D. Ohio
In Equity. Suits by the Mutual Film Company and by the Mutual Film Corporation against the Industrial Commission of Ohio and Wallace D. Yaple, Matthew B. Hammond, and Thomas J. Duffy, as members of such commission, and the Board of Censors of Moving Picture Films of the State of Ohio, and J. W. Maddox, H. E. Vestal, and Maude Murray Miller, as members of such board. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Per curiam
The ultimate question in these cases is whether a state has power to regulate the public exhibition of motion pictures. The statement of the question would seem to present a simple problem, and yet it is earnestly contended that the General Assembly of Ohio has through its enactment violated grave constitutional guaranties. The contention is not that persons displaying improper pictures may not be punished after the fact; but it is that the display itself cannot be prevented. This is not a denial of the existence of evil practices growing out of this class of public exhibitions; it is a…
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