United States Fourth Circuit

Preliminary injunctive relief was proper where a nude dancing establishment would likely prevail on an overbreadth challenge to certain North Carolina restrictions on nudity and other conduct, under intermediate scrutiny.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/04/2001
• Decided 08/30/2002
• Published 08/30/2002

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, MOTZ, and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Roy Blackwell, Special Deputy Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Defendants-Appellants.  J. Michael Murray, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & Devan, Cleveland, Ohio, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Roy Cooper, North Carolina Attorney General, Amy L. Yonowitz, Assistant Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Defendants-Appellants.  Steven D. Shafron, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & Devan, Cleveland, Ohio, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.