Legal Opinion

Frank Genusa, Cross-Appellees v. City of Peoria, Cross-Appellants

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided April 25, 1980No. 79-1716, 79-1717PublishedCited by 93 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TONE, Circuit Judge.

The question in this case is whether a recently enacted “adult use” ordinance of the City of Peoria, Illinois, 1 places restrictions on the operation of adult bookstores that cannot be squared with the First Amendment as made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Peoria ordinance, which is modeled in part on an ordinance of the City of Detroit that was held constitutional in Young v. American Mini Theatres, Inc., 427 U.S. 50, 96 S.Ct. 2440, 49 L.Ed.2d 310 (1976), places numer ous zoning, licensing, and employee permit restrictions on the operation of…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  2. Broadrick v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963

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3Cited by93 opinions

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  5. Kev, Inc. v. Kitsap County and the Honorable Ray Aardal and John Horsley, County Commissioners of Kitsap, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986

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