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355 U.S. 35

78 S. Ct. 115

2 L. Ed. 2d 72

Docket No. 372.

Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago

Supreme Court of the United States

November 12, 1957

Supreme Court of the United States · decided November 12, 1957

Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago, or Times v. City of Chicago is the name of two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1957 and 1961. Both involved the issue of limits on freedom of expression in connection with motion pictures. In both cases the court affirmed the right of local governments to engage in some form of censorship.

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Relies on Roth v. United States

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Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided November 12, 1957

How this case has been cited

Cited by 126 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1990 · most notably Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964), Coppedge v. United States (1962)

63 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 states

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Mr. Felix J. Bilgrey, for petitioner.

Messrs. John C. Melaniphy and Sydney R. Drebin, for respondents.

On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

PER CURIAM.

¶1

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is reversed. Roth v. U. S. (Alberts v. California), 354 U.S. 476, 77 S.Ct. 1304, 1 L.Ed.2d 1498.

¶2

Mr. Justice BURTON and Mr. Justice CLARK are of the opinion that the petition for certiorari should not have been granted.

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