State ex rel. Gibbons v. Jackson

Sherrod Jackson, Robert Williams, Nathaniel Williams, Mike Williams, Shirley Blalock, and Steven Craig Cooper (collectively “Appellants”) appeal from the Chancery Court of Shelby County, which granted a temporary injunction, enjoining the Appellants from permitting “lap dancing” and from permitting employees or independent contractors from engaging in “lewd and obscene exhibition of genitals.”

I. Facts and Procedural History

Appellants allegedly own and/or operate an “adult cabaret” business in Memphis, Tennessee named “Pure Passion.” As part of a police operation, members of the Memphis Police…