City of Chattanooga v. McCoy

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

The issue before this Court is the constitutionality of an ordinance of the City of Chattanooga that prohibits nudity, the performance of a number of sex acts, actual or simulated, and the appearance of a female dressed so as “wholly or substantially” to expose to public view one or both breasts, in a public place.

The ordinance was enforced in the trial court but the Court of Appeals held it to be overbroad and violative of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Defendants were…