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Wooden gavel
Jun 22, 1964

Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964)

Free Speech
Status: Historic

In 1959, Nico Jacobellis, manager of the Heights Art Movie Theater in Cleveland Heights, showed Les Amants (“The Lovers”), a film that featured a woman who leaves her husband and...

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Wooden gavel
Wooden gavel
Jun 19, 1961

Mapp v. Ohio 367 U.S. 643 (1961)

Police Practices
Status: Historic

In 1957, future boxing promoter Don King’s house was bombed. Responding to a tip regarding the location of one of the suspects in the bombing, three plainclothes policemen visited the Cleveland-area home of...

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Wooden gavel
Wooden gavel
Apr 22, 1953

State ex rel. Smilack v. Bushong 159 Ohio St. 259 (Ohio 1953)

Privacy
Status: Historic

In 1951, the Ohio General Assembly established the Un-American Activities Commission. Forty Ohioans were questioned about their affiliation with Communism, including Oscar Smilack, a first-...

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