City of Detroit v. Qualls

Glen R. Qualls was charged on July 2, 1984, with the misdemeanor of violating a Detroit fireworks ordinance requiring that "[t]he storage of fireworks in a place of retail sales shall be limited to gross weight of less than one hundred (100) pounds . . . ,”1_

*370The district court dismissed the charge on December 11, 1984, after an evidentiary hearing at which an expert witness testified concerning the danger of explosion of various quantities of class b and class c fireworks, on the ground that the one-hundred-pound limitation is not reasonably related to the city’s interest in the health,…