Fine Arts Guild Inc. V. City Of Seattle

Ordinances Nos. 83099 and 93227*fn1 of the city of Seattle undertake, through a board of theatre supervisors, to regulate and classify motion pictures and allied forms of entertainment as to their moral content. Respondents in the present actions, consolidated for purposes of trial and appeal, challenge the constitutionality of the respective ordinances upon the grounds that they violated the first*fn2 and fourteenth*fn3 amendments to the United States Constitution,