ESSEX THEATRE CORP. v. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON


365 Mass. 183 (1974)

310 N.E.2d 329

ESSEX THEATRE CORPORATION vs. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 23, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Ball, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the Police Commissioner of Boston.

John J. Crowley for the plaintiff.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The plaintiff filed a bill in equity for declaratory relief against the police commissioner of the city of Boston seeking a declaration that three named motion pictures were not obscene and that their exhibition was protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and not in violation of G.L.c. 272, § 32.

Each of the films showed "explicit sexual congress." A controversy...

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