G. & A. BOOKS, INC. v. Stern

OPINION

MOTLEY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, all in the business of selling and exhibiting sexually-explicit books, films and performances, sue to enjoin the destruction of their businesses by the Forty-Second Street Development Project. Plaintiffs claim that one of the motivations behind the Project, which will attempt to upgrade the Times Square area by building four large office towers, a hotel, and a merchandise mart, is to put them out of business and stifle distribution of sexually explicit, constitutionally protected material. They maintain that the Project’s blight findings with regard to…