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- Jacobellis_v._Ohio abstract "Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of a French film called The Lovers (Les Amants) which the state had deemed obscene. Nico Jacobellis, manager of the Heights Art Theatre in the Coventry Village neighborhood of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was convicted and fined $2,500 by a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas for exhibiting the film, and his conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the conviction, ruling that the film was not obscene and hence constitutionally protected. However, the Court could not agree as to a rationale, yielding four different opinions from the majority, with none garnering the support of more than two justices, as well as two dissenting opinions. The judgment of the Court was announced by William J. Brennan, but his opinion was joined only by Justice Arthur Goldberg. Justice Hugo Black, joined by Justice William O. Douglas, reiterated his well-known view that the First Amendment does not permit censorship of any kind. Chief Justice Earl Warren, in dissent, decried the confused state of the Court's obscenity jurisprudence and argued that Ohio's action was consistent with the Court's decision in Roth v. United States and furthered important state interests. Justice John Marshall Harlan II also dissented, believing that states should have "wide, but not federally unrestricted" power to ban obscene films.The most famous opinion from Jacobellis, however, was Justice Potter Stewart's concurrence, holding that the Constitution protected all obscenity except "hard-core pornography." Stewart wrote, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." (emphasis added)The Court's obscenity jurisprudence would remain fragmented until 1973's Miller v. California. Many legal observers feel that, after Miller, it remained confusing and vague. What is obscene in one place can well be completely legal in another.".
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- Jacobellis_v._Ohio arguedate "--03-26".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio argueyear "1963".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio case "Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio citation "172800.0".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio concurrence "Black".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio concurrence "Goldberg".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio concurrence "Stewart".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio concurrence "White".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio decidedate "--06-22".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio decideyear "1964".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio dissent "Harlan".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio dissent "Warren".
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- Jacobellis_v._Ohio fullname "Nico Jacobellis v. Ohio".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio hasPhotoCollection Jacobellis_v._Ohio.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio holding "The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protected a movie theater manager from being prosecuted for possessing and showing a film that was not obscene.".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio joinconcurrence "Douglas".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio joindissent "Clark".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio joinplurality "Goldberg".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio justia case.html.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio lawsapplied "U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV; Ohio Rev. Code § 2905.34".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio litigants "Jacobellis v. Ohio".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio plurality "Brennan".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio prior "17280.0".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio scotus "1962".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subsequent "None".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio uspage "184".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio usvol "378".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:1964_in_United_States_case_law.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:American_Civil_Liberties_Union_litigation.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:Cleveland_Heights,_Ohio.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:Pornography_law.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:United_States_Supreme_Court_cases.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio subject Category:United_States_obscenity_case_law.
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- Jacobellis_v._Ohio comment "Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of a French film called The Lovers (Les Amants) which the state had deemed obscene.".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio label "Jacobellis v. Ohio".
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio sameAs m.030p8b.
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- Jacobellis_v._Ohio sameAs Q17004280.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio wasDerivedFrom Jacobellis_v._Ohio?oldid=604170197.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio isPrimaryTopicOf Jacobellis_v._Ohio.
- Jacobellis_v._Ohio name "Nico Jacobellis v. Ohio".