HOFFMAN v. DICKINSON OPERATING CO.

No. 55147.

468 S.W.2d 26 (1971)

Herbert C. HOFFMAN, City Counselor of Kansas City, Missouri, Respondent, v. DICKINSON OPERATING COMPANY, Inc., and Jim Hanson, Manager, Kimo Theatre, and Samuel M. Brown, Projectionist, Kimo Theatre, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

June 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron A. Wilson, Jr., City Counselor, Charles A. Lewis, Associate City Counselor, Robert A. Dakopolos, Associate City Counselor, Kansas City, for respondent.

Robert B. Olsen, Irving Achtenberg, Kansas City, for appellants; Fallon, Olsen, Talpers & Thompson, Achtenberg, Sandler & Balkin, Kansas City, of counsel.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal from a permanent injunction barring appellants, operators of the Kimo Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, from showing the motion picture film "I Am Curious (Yellow)." V.A.M.S. § 563.285.

Appellants first assert that the film is not obscene "under the applicable standards of Federal constitutional law." We have viewed the film, and consider it obscene and not protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments from suppression...

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