RICHLAND BOOKMART, INC. v. NICHOLS

No. 00-5563.

278 F.3d 570 (2002)

RICHLAND BOOKMART, INC., d/b/a Town and Country, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Randall E. NICHOLS, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed January 23, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frierson M. Graves, Jr. (argued and briefed), Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, Memphis, Tennessee, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Steven A. Hart (argued and briefed), Michael J. Fahey, II, Asst. Atty. Gen. (briefed), Nashville, TN, Mark C. Hartsoe, City of Knoxville Law Dept., Debra C. Poplin, Ritchie, Fels & Dillard, Knoxville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CLAY and GILMAN, Circuit Judges; WISEMAN, Senior District Judge.


OPINION

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

In 1995, Richland Bookmart, Inc. (Bookmart), the operator of an adult-oriented video and book store, brought suit against Randall E. Nichols, the District Attorney for Knox County, Tennessee, challenging Tennessee's Adult-Oriented Establishments Act of 1995 (the Act) on the grounds that it violated both the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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