Pathe Exch., Inc. v. Cobb

Decision Date08 May 1923
Citation142 N.E. 274,236 N.Y. 539
PartiesPATHE EXCHANGE, Inc., Appellant, v. George H. COBB et al., Constituting the Motion Picture Commission of the State of New York, Respondents.
CourtNew York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals

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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department (202 App. Div. 450,195 N. Y. Supp. 661), entered August 28, 1922, in favor of defendants upon the submission of a controversy under sections 546-548 of the Civil Practice Act. The question was whether chapter 715 of the Laws of 1921, which created a commission known as the ‘motion picture commission,’ investing it with certain power and authority in the regulation of the exhibition of motion pictures, was in violation of section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution of the state of New York and of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in so far as the same compelled the rpoducers of motion picture reels commonly known as ‘Current Events Film’ under the designation of ‘Pathe News,’ to submit such reels to the motion picture commission of the state of New York to be censored prior to the exhibition thereof in a public place of amusement. The Appellate Division held that said chapter 715 of the Laws of 1921 did not contravene the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of New York relative to the liberty of the press.Frederic R. Coudert, Howard Thayer Kingsbury, and P. A. Shay, all of New York City, for appellant.

Carl Sherman, Atty. Gen. (Arthur E. Rose, of Albany, of counsel), for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

Judgment affirmed, without costs.

HISCOCK, C. J., and HOGAN, POUND, McLAUGHLIN, CRANE, and ANDREWS, JJ., concur.

CARDOZO, J., absent.

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