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Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952), also referred to as the Miracle Decision, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court that largely marked the decline of motion picture censorship in the United States. [1]
Provisions of the New York Education Law which forbid the commercial showing of any motion picture film without a license and authorize denial of a license on a censor's conclusion that a film is "sacrilegious," held void as a prior restraint on freedom of speech and of the press under the First Amendment, made applicable to the states by the Fo...
1 sty 2009 · In Burstyn v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495 (1952), the Supreme Court ruled that a New York education law allowing a film to be banned on the basis of its being sacrilegious violated the First Amendment.
The case is about a New York state law that allows films to be banned if they are considered "sacrilegious." A corporation called the appellant had exclusive...
Whether a New York Education Law that prohibited the commercial showing of any motion picture film without a license, and authorized denial of a license on a censors conclusion that a film was "sacrilegious," violated the First Amendment.
JOSEPH BURSTYN, INC. v. WILSON, COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION OF NEW YORK, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1952. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1952. In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.
Clark, T. C. & Supreme Court Of The United States. (1951) U.S. Reports: Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495. [Periodical] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep343495/.
