FINE ARTS GUILD, INC. v. CITY OF SEATTLE

No. 38815.

74 Wn.2d 503 (1968)

445 P.2d 602

FINE ARTS GUILD, INC., Respondent, v. THE CITY OF SEATTLE et al., Appellants. PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION et al., Respondents, v. THE CITY OF SEATTLE et al., Appellants, STERLING THEATRES CO., Respondent.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

September 26, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.L. Newbould, Arthur T. Lane, and Woodford B. Baldwin, for appellants.

Culp, Dwyer & Guterson, William L. Dwyer, and Louis F. Nawrot, Jr., for respondent Fine Arts Guild, Inc.

Bogle, Gates, Dobrin, Wakefield & Long, Thomas L. Morrow, and Bertram L. Metzger, Jr., for respondents Paramount Film Distributing Corporation et al.


HAMILTON, J.

Ordinances Nos. 83099 and 932271 of the city of Seattle undertake, through a board of theatre supervisors, to regulate and classify motion pictures and allied forms of entertainment as to their moral content. Respondents in the present actions, consolidated for purposes of trial and appeal, challenge the constitutionality of the respective ordinances upon the grounds that they violated the first2

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