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The Supreme Court decision in 1952 brought films under the free speech and free press provisions of the First Amendment, overturning the Mutual case that had stood as precedent to censor films since 1915. It is true that, because the decision said that films could still be censored under a narrowly drawn statute for obscenity, states and ...
Loving is a 2016 biographical romantic drama film which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) decision Loving v. Virginia , which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage .
The U.S. Supreme Court Building, current home of the Supreme Court, which opened in 1935, has been described as having "an air of mystery" that makes it a good location to set fiction. Like many institutions that draw public interest, the Supreme Court of the United States has frequently been depicted in fiction, often in the form of legal drama.
A movie that centres on people attending an artistic/sexual salon was a likely contender to feature unsimulated sex and Shortbus does, but director John Cameron Mitchell had a reason for including it.
By Variety: 20th Century Fox is developing a movie about the June 26 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court case that effectively legalized same-sex marriage. Fox has acquired the life rights of Jim ...
Inside the courtroom during oral arguments on Moore v. Harper.
Gelling was convicted and fined $200. He appealed the conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the case of W. L. Gelling v. State of Texas 343 U.S. 960 (1952), the Court then overturned Gelling's conviction based on the free-speech protections given to movies in the recently decided case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson (1952).
Avco Embassy re-released the film to theaters after the Supreme Court ruling, using the tagline "The United States Supreme Court has ruled that 'Carnal Knowledge' is not obscene. See it now!" [9] After the film's release in Rome, it was briefly banned in Italy in February 1972 for obscenity. [6]