Editing Freedman v. Maryland

{{Infobox Case Brief
|court=Supreme Court of the United States
|date=March 1, 1965
|subject=First Amendment
|facts=In 1965, Maryland law required a state board of censors to review movies for 
#obscenity
#moral corruption
#likelihood of inciting crime.

Ronald Freedman was a theater owner in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1960s. Freedman was fined for not seeking permission from the state prior to exhibiting his movie.
|procedural_history=Freeman loses in Maryland court & appealed to SCOTUS.
|arguments=Freedman argued that the Maryland land was an unconstitutional '''prior restraint''' on his freedom of expression under the [[1st Amendment]]?
|holding=Maryland has violated the US Constitution by censoring films prior to public viewing in movie theaters because timely & impartial review of censorship decisions were lacking.
|rule=[https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/349/freedman-v-maryland Film censorship statutes were based on the concept of '''prior restraint'''].
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|link=https://www.quimbee.com/cases/freedman-v-maryland
|source_type=Video summary
|case_text_source=Quimbee
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|link=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/380/51/
|case_text_source=Justia
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|link=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/380/51
|case_text_source=Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School
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