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Held: 1. Respondents' denial of use of the municipal facilities for the production, which was based on the board members' judgment of dating the musical's content, constituted a prior restraint. Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham, 394U.S. 147 ; Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310U.S. 296 . Pp. 552-558. 2. A system of prior restraint "avoids constitutional infirmity only if it takes place under procedural safeguards designed to obviate the dangers of a censorship system," Freedman v. Maryland, 380U.S. 51, 58 , viz., (1) dating the burden of instituting judicial proceedings, and of proving that the material dating is unprotected, must rest on the censor; (2) any restraint before judicial review can be imposed only for a specified brief period and only to preserve the status quo; and (3) a prompt judicial determination must be assured. Since those safeguards in several respects were lacking here, respondents' action violated petitioner's First Amendment rights.
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