Superior Films, Inc. v. Department of Ed. of Ohio

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1953-10-12

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Mr. Justice Douglas, with whom Mr. Justice Black agrees, concurring. The argument of Ohio and New York that the government may establish censorship over moving pictures is one I cannot accept. In 1925 Minnesota passed a law aimed at suppressing before publication any “malicious, scandalous and defamatory newspaper.” The Court, speaking through Chief Justice Hughes, struck down tha…

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