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CITY OF CHATTANOOGA v. McCOY

645 S.W.2d 400 (1983)

CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, Appellant, v. Janet L. McCOY and Patricia Combs, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

February 7, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene N. Collins, W. Lee Maddux, Chattanooga, for appellant.

Larry G. Roddy, William C. Killian, Chattanooga, for appellees.

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

The issue before this Court is the constitutionality of an ordinance of the City of Chattanooga that prohibits nudity, the performance of a number of sex acts, actual or simulated, and the appearance of a female dressed so as "wholly or substantially" to expose to public view one or both breasts, in a public place.

The ordinance was enforced in the trial court but the Court of Appeals held it to be overbroad and violative...

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