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Times Film Corporation v. City of Chicago, or Times v. City of Chicago is the name of two cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1957 and 1961. Both involved the issue of limits on freedom of expression in connection with motion pictures. In both cases the court affirmed the right of local governments to engage in some form of censorship.
They furnish, it is estimated, more than 90% of the motion pictures annually exhibited in motion picture theatres in cities, towns and villages throughout the United States, including the City of Chicago. The petitioner, Times Film Corporation, is not a member of the Association.
Petitioner is a New York corporation owning the exclusive right to publicly exhibit in Chicago the film known as 'Don Juan.' It applied for a permit, as Chicago's ordinance required, and tendered the license fee but refused to submit the film for examination.
Times Film Corporation . Respondent City of Chicago . Docket no. 34 . Decided by Warren Court . Lower court United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ...
SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a New York corporation, filed its complaint in the district court, on the ground of diversity of citizenship between it and the defendants, city of Chicago, its mayor, and its commissioner of police.
Jan 1, 2009 · In Times Film Corp. v. City of Chicago, 365 U.S. 43 (1961), the Supreme Court ruled that this provision of Chicago’s ordinance did not violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The question of whether the movie was obscene was not at issue.
SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge. From a judgment for defendants, The City of Chicago, a municipal corporation, Richard J. Daley, its mayor, and Timothy J. O'Connor, its police commissioner, dismissing the plaintiff's cause, the latter has appealed.
