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PAP'S A.M. v. CITY OF ERIE

719 A.2d 273 (1998)

PAP'S A.M. t/d/b/a Kandyland, Appellant, v. The CITY OF ERIE, Joyce A. Savocchio, Chris E. Maras, Mario S. Bagnoni, Robert C. Brabender, Denise Robinson, and James N. Thompson, in Their Official Capacities, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 21, 1998.

Reargument Denied January 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip B. Friedman, Erie, for PAP's A.M. t/d/b/a Kandyland.

Carl Max Janavitz, Pittsburgh, Michael Murray, Norristown, Stephen D. Shafron, Paul J. Cambria, Jr., Buffalo, NY, for Golden Triangle News, Inc., a Delaware Corp. t/d/b/a Golden Triangle News and Mello News; Monroeville News, Inc.; Fairview Books, Inc. t/d/b/a Good N Plenty; B.L.V.D. News; and North Hills News, Inc. (Amici Curiae).

Gregory A. Karle, Gerald J. Villella, Erie, for the City of Erie, Joyce A. Savocchio, Chris E. Maras, Mario S. Bognoni, Robert C. Brabender, Denise Robinson and James N. Thompson.

Kerry A. Fraas, George M. Janocsko, Michael McAuliffe, Pittsburgh, Robert Colville, Dist. Atty., for Allegheny County (Amicus Curiae).

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, CASTILLE and NIGRO, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

CAPPY, Justice.

This is an appeal by allowance from the order of the Commonwealth Court reversing the trial court's order permanently enjoining the enforcement of the City of Erie's Ordinance 75-1994 ("Ordinance"), and striking the Ordinance in its entirety. For the following reasons, we now reverse.1

On September 28, 1994, the City Council for the...

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