STATE EX REL. KEATING v. A MOTION PICTURE FILM ENTITLED "VIXEN"

No. 70-554.

27 Ohio St. 2d 278 (1971)

THE STATE, EX REL. KEATING, APPELLEE, v. A MOTION PICTURE FILM ENTITLED "VIXEN" ET AL., APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided July 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Keating, Muething & Klekamp and Mr. James J. Clancy, for appellee.

Messrs. Mesh & Moskowitz and Mr. Elmer Gertz, for appellants.


Per Curiam.

Although the production, exhibition and distribution of motion pictures is a large-scale business conducted for private profit, the fact that motion pictures are a medium for the expression of ideas accords them the safeguard of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Kingsley International Pictures Corp. v. Regents of University of the State of New York (1959), 360 U.S....

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