Jim Moses v. County of Kenosha, a Body Politic and Corporate

Plaintiffs are the owner, employees, and a former employee of The Odyssey, an adult bookstore in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. In January 1986 the County passed an ordinance prohibiting the sale of “obscene material”, defined as “a writing, picture, sound recording or film” which:

1. The average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find appeals to prurient interests if taken as a whole;

2. Under contemporary community standards, describes or shows sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and

3. Lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value as measured by…