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"It cannot be put out of view that the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit, like other spectacles, not to be regarded, nor intended to be regarded by the Ohio Constitution, we think, as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion."
- in Carter v. Gautier, 1969 and 152 similar citations
In 1915, the United States Supreme Court held that motion pictures were not entitled to any constitutional protection under the First Amendment
—this Court said as to motion pictures: "... They take their attraction from the general interest, eager and wholesome it may be, in their subjects, but a prurient interest may be excited and appealed to...."
- in Roth v. United States, 1957 and 76 similar citations
—it was deemed necessary to find that the terms' educational, moral, amusing or harmless' do not leave'decision to arbitrary judgment'.
- in Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 1952 and 39 similar citations
—at p. 242, 59 L. Ed. 552, 559, the court recognized that a prurient interest may be excited and appealed to by motion pictures.
On the ground that the exhibition of motion pictures is a "business pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit."
We have recognized that the legislature may delegate discretion to an administrative officer to determine the specifics of how a statute is to be enforced, but " `[t] he legislature must declare the policy of the law and fix the legal principles which are to control in given cases.'"
- in Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Smit, 2010 and 33 similar citations
—movies were purely business undertakings and in no sense related to the press, it was specifically disapproved in Joseph Burstyn, Inc.
- in Flack v. Municipal Court, 1967 and 32 similar citations
For a time, our Court did permit broad censorship of movies because of their capacity to be "used for evil
- in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass'n, 2011 and 37 similar citations

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303 NY 242 - NY: Court of Appeals 1951
159 Ohio St. 315 - Ohio: Supreme Court 1953
305 NY 336 - NY: Court of Appeals 1953
343 US 495 - Supreme Court 1952
247 SW 2d 95 - Tex: Court of Criminal Appeals 1952
183 F. 2d 562 - Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit 1950
121 NE 2d 585 - Ill: Supreme Court 1954
162 Ohio St. 263 - Ohio: Supreme Court 1954
114 F. Supp. 823 - Dist. Court, ND Ohio 1953
564 US 786 - Supreme Court 2011

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