Legal Opinion
Acorn Investments, Inc. v. City of Seattle Walter Tank Douglas Jewett
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 5, 1989No. 88-3657PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:
Acorn Investments, Inc. owns and operates panoram machines at four adult entertainment centers in the City of Seattle. When a customer inserts one or more quarters into a panoram, the machine exhibits a video tape or motion picture on a screen for a few minutes.1 A customer may also view live entertainment through a panoram. Each panoram is located in a booth that gives individual patrons some degree of privacy.
In this action, Acorn attacks as violative of the First Amendment city laws that require panoram businesses to pay various license fees and to disclose…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. v. Minnesota Commissioner of RevenueSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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