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CAPITOL NEWS CO., INC. v. METRO. GOV'T, ETC.

562 S.W.2d 430 (1978)

CAPITOL NEWS COMPANY, INC. and Borchert Enterprises, Inc., Appellants, v. The METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 6, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel H. Moseley, Nashville, for appellants.

J.R. Slobey, Metropolitan Atty., Nashville, for appellee.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

In this case appellants challenge the constitutionality of an ordinance of the Metropolitan Government enacted in October 1976, prohibiting the willful sale or commercial distribution of explicit sexual and pornographic materials to minors. After an evidentiary hearing the Chancellor upheld the ordinance. We affirm his decision.

Insofar as the record reveals, under the ordinance one arrest has been made of personnel of...

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