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steve2470

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Mon Feb 24, 2014, 05:42 PM Feb 2014

Movie censorship is OK: 1915 SCOTUS Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio [View all]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Film_Corporation_v._Industrial_Commission_of_Ohio

In 1952, this was finally overturned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Burstyn,_Inc_v._Wilson

I just stumbled on this today. I had no idea SCOTUS had ever ruled that way.
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