UNIVERSAL FILM EXCHANGES, INC. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 68 C 722.

288 F.Supp. 286 (1968)

UNIVERSAL FILM EXCHANGES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Columbia Pictures Corporation, a New York Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Paramount Film Distributing Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and United Artists Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, a municipal corporation, James B. Conlisk, Superintendent of Police of the City of Chicago, John F. Cusack, Ner Littner, Henry Rago, Matthew Schoenbaum and Mrs. Norman Gerlach, Members of the Motion Picture Appeal Board of the City of Chicago, and Jennie Drakos, Ilene Frymire, Beatrice McGill, Eleanor Gross and Edith Joyce, Members of the Film Review Section, Office of Police of the City of Chicago, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

August 20, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel W. Block, Thomas P. Sullivan, John G. Stifler, Leah S. Hamilton, Raymond, Mayer, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Marvin S. Aspen, for Raymond F. Simon, Corp. Counsel, City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

NAPOLI, District Judge.

The City of Chicago has recently enacted a motion picture censorship ordinance, Chapter 155 of the Municipal Code of Chicago. The ordinance requires a permit for the exhibition of any motion picture in a public place in the city, to an audience which includes any person under 18 years of age. A permit is obtained by applying to the Superintendent of Police, tendering with the application the film to be shown, along...

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