Cinema I Video, Inc. v. Thornburg

JOHNSON, Judge.

The North Carolina General Assembly recently legislated extensive amendments to the North Carolina General Statutes pertaining to obscenity and child pornography. Many of plaintiffs’ questions presented for our review pertain to those amendments aimed at preventing child pornography and are typical of what was once described as “a new phase of the intractable obscenity problem.” Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 390 U.S. 676, 704, 20 L.Ed. 2d 225, 243, 88 S.Ct. 1298, 1313 (1968) (Harlan, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). Plaintiffs question virtually…