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ZENITH INTERNATIONAL FILM CORP. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILL.

No. 13008.

291 F.2d 785 (1961)

ZENITH INTERNATIONAL FILM CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILL., Richard J. Daley and Kyran Phelan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

June 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert L. Will, Joseph Schneider, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Robert J. Collins, Asst. Corp. Counsel, John C. Melaniphy, Corporation Counsel, Sydney R. Drebin, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and DUFFY and KNOCH, Circuit Judges.

HASTINGS, Chief Judge.

The Supreme Court, in Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago, 1961, 365 U.S. 43, 81 S.Ct. 391, 5 L.Ed.2d 403, held that the prior restraint imposed by a certain Chicago city ordinance which required submission before exhibition of all films to municipal authorities for their examination was not per se a violation of the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech. The Court rejected what it characterized...

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