Legal Opinion
Robert Arthur Management Corp. v. State Ex Rel. Canale
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 27, 1967PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dyer
The constitutionality of a statutory scheme prohibiting obscene materials, by use of the injunctive process, is at issue here. This statute, enacted by Chapter 93 of the Public Acts of 1965, is now carried in Tennessee Code Annotated as Sections 39-3005, 39-3006 and 39-3007. Under this statute the Criminal Court of Shelby County found the motion picture film “Mondo Freudo” and an advertising trailer “Olga’s Girls” to be obscene. The appeal here is by the exhibitor of the film and trailer, Robert-Arthur Management Corporation.
Under the Constitution of the United States obscenity is excluded…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Freedman v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Jacobellis v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Bantam Books, Inc. v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- A Book Named "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" v. Attorney General of MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Vernon Walker Huffman v. United States, Dennis Eugene Pryba v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Potts v. GibsonTennessee Supreme Court · 1971
- Price v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1972
- State v. MarshallTennessee Supreme Court · 1993
- In Re Seven MagazinesSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1970
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