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MTR. OF KINGSLEY CORP. v. REGENTS

4 A.D.2d 348 (1957)

In the Matter of Kingsley International Pictures Corporation, Petitioner, v. Regents of the University of the State of New York, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ephraim S. London and Sherman P. Kimball for petitioner.

Charles A. Brind, Jr., John P. Jehu, Elizabeth M. Eastman and George B. Farrington for respondent.

Charles J. Tobin, Jr., Porter R. Chandler and John B. Coleman, Jr., for New York State Catholic Welfare Committee, amicus curiæ.

Charles Ballon, Nanette Dembitz and Jacob M. Usadi for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiæ.

BERGAN, HALPERN and GIBSON, JJ., concur with COON, J.; FOSTER, P. J., concurs in the result.

COON, J.

The motion picture under review is "Lady Chatterley's Lover", an adaptation of the novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence. The motion picture division of the State Education Department denied a license unless three sequences which were regarded as "immoral" were deleted. In appeal by petitioner the Regents not only upheld the original licensing authorities, but determined that the entire picture was...

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