Jacobellis v. Ohio

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Jacobellis v. Ohio
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 1963 Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	Nico Jacobellis v. Ohio
Citations	378 U.S. 184 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1676; 12 L. Ed. 2d 793; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 822; 28 Ohio Op. 2d 101
Case history
Prior	Defendant convicted, Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 6-3-60; affirmed, 175 N.E.2d 123 (Ohio Ct. App. 1961); affirmed, 179 N.E.2d 777 (Ohio 1962); probable jurisdiction noted, 371 U.S. 808 (1962).
Subsequent	None
Holding
The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protected a movie theater manager from being prosecuted for possessing and showing a film that was not obscene.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Plurality	Brennan, joined by Goldberg
Concurrence	Black, joined by Douglas
Concurrence	Stewart
Concurrence	White
Dissent	Warren, joined by Clark
Dissent	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV; Ohio Rev. Code § 2905.34

Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of the Louis Malle film The Lovers (Les Amants), which the state had deemed obscene.^[1]