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Legal Citation: 343 U.S. 495 (1952)

Appellant
Joseph Burstyn, Inc.

Appellee
Lewis A. Wilson, New York Commissioner of Education

Appellant's Claim
The New York State should not have banned the showing of the film The Miracle on the grounds that the film was "sacrilegious."

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Ephraim S. London

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
Charles A. Brind, Jr., and Wendell P. Brown, Solicitor General of New York

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, Harold Burton, Tom C. Clark (writing for the Court), William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Sherman Minton, Stanley Forman Reed, Fred Moore Vinson

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
26 May 1952

Decision
That New York should not permit a censor...