Concept information
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Jacobellis v. Ohio
Definition
- 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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Date
- 1964
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Jacobellis_v._Ohio
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