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I. M. Amusement Corp. v. Ohio

U.S.
Jan 15, 1968
389 U.S. 573 (1968)

Summary

holding not obscene a movie involving "moving pinups" and a nude lesbian love scene

Summary of this case from Duggan v. Guild Theatre, Inc.

Opinion

APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO.

No. 260.

Decided January 15, 1968.

Reversed.

Allen Brown for appellant.

Melvin G. Rueger and Calvin W. Prem for appellee.


The judgment of the Supreme Court of Ohio is reversed. Redrup v. New York, 386 U.S. 767.

THE CHIEF JUSTICE concurs on the ground that evidence of contemporary community standards was excluded at trial.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN would affirm for the reasons set forth in his separate opinion in Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476, 496, 500-503, and in his dissenting opinion in Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413, 455.


Summaries of

I. M. Amusement Corp. v. Ohio

U.S.
Jan 15, 1968
389 U.S. 573 (1968)

holding not obscene a movie involving "moving pinups" and a nude lesbian love scene

Summary of this case from Duggan v. Guild Theatre, Inc.
Case details for

I. M. Amusement Corp. v. Ohio

Case Details

Full title:I. M. AMUSEMENT CORP. v . OHIO

Court:U.S.

Date published: Jan 15, 1968

Citations

389 U.S. 573 (1968)

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