Legal Opinion
Price v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 18, 1991PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’BRIEN, Justice.
This case was initiated in the Chancery Court for Knox County as a declaratory judgment action challenging the constitutionality of T.C.A. § 7-51-1101, et seq. known and cited as the Adult-Oriented Establishment Registration Act of 1987.
Plaintiff, Video Review, owned by Douglas Price, is a video rental store dealing in movies to be played on home video cassette recorders. Approximately sixty percent (60%) of the movies rented are rated “R” by the Motion Picture Association and about ninety percent (90%) of “R” movies show either simulated sexual intercourse, or…
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