Legal Opinion
Video Software Dealers Ass'n v. Webster
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 1, 1992No. 91-2797WMPublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAGG, Circuit Judge.
This case presents a pre-enforcement challenge to the constitutionality of a Missouri statute that restricts the rental or sale of videocassettes or other video reproduction devices (collectively videos) depicting any type of violence in a defined way. The statute prohibits the rental or sale of these videos to minors and requires video dealers to display or maintain the videos in a separate area within their stores. The statute’s challengers represent three groups: associations whose members rent or sell videos to the public; the Motion Picture Association of America,…
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