Legal Opinion
City of Paducah v. Investment Entertainment, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 28, 1986No. Nos. 85-5092, 85-5093PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The City of Paducah, Kentucky, appeals the judgment of District Judge Johnstone that Paducah’s obscenity abatement ordinance, on its face, establishes a prior restraint of protected speech and thereby unconstitutionally infringes the first amendment rights of plaintiffs Investment Entertainment, Inc. and Beltline News and Arcade Club, sellers of books, magazines, and video tapes. We agree that the ordinance’s provision requiring the revocation of the occupational licenses of booksellers and movie theaters dealing in obscenity renders the ordinance invalid.
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