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Jacobellis v. Ohio  

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  • The Supreme Court decision in Jacobellis v. Ohio , 378 U.S. 187 (1964), overturned on First Amendment grounds the conviction of a movie theater manager who had been prosecuted for showing a film deemed by Ohio authorities to be obscene. In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, local officials had charged theater manager Nico Jacobellis with obscenity for showing the French movie The Lovers. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)]

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  • 1964

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Jacobellis_v._Ohio

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