Cinema I Video, Inc. v. Thornburg

WHICHARD, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought this declaratory judgment action seeking to have amendments to North Carolina’s obscenity laws declared facially unconstitutional and further seeking to enjoin defendants from enforcing the statutes against them. These amendments were enacted on 11 July 1985 as House Bill 1171, entitled “An ACT TO STRENGTHEN THE OBSCENITY LAWS, TO PROTECT MINORS FROM HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT DOES NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF OBSCENITY, AND TO STOP THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND PROSTITUTION OF MINORS.” This bill amended N.C.G.S. § 14-190.1, repealed N.C.G.S. § 14-190.2, and added…