TATTERED COVER, INC. v. TOOLEY

No. 82SA85.

696 P.2d 780 (1985)

TATTERED COVER, INC., a Colorado corporation, d/b/a Tattered Cover Bookstore; Joyce Knauer; Pioneer Ventures, Inc., a Colorado corporation, d/b/a Columbine Books and Records; Larry Hamilton; American Booksellers Association, Inc.; Association of American Publishers, Inc., a New York corporation, and Council For Periodical Distributors Associations, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. Dale TOOLEY, District Attorney, Second Judicial District; Arthur Dill, Chief of Police, Denver Police Department; and Jerry Kennedy, Captain, Vice Squad, Denver Police Department, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter H. Ney, Littleton, Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg & Casey, Jeffrey A. Mitchell, Michael A. Bamberger, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Norman S. Early, Jr., Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief Appellate Deputy Dist. Atty., David Purdy, Chief Deputy Dist. Atty., Donna Skinner Reed, Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees.

L. Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard Forman, Sol. Gen., John Milton Hutchins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for amicus curiae, Colorado Attorney General.


NEIGHBORS, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Denver District Court declaring that sections 18-7-502(5) and 18-7-503, 8 C.R.S. (1984 Supp.), are unconstitutional and severing them from the remainder of the provisions governing "Sexually Explicit Materials Harmful to Children" (the Act), sections 18-7-501 to -504, 8 C.R.S. (1984 Supp.).1 The plaintiffs2 request reversal of the trial court's...

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