United States Sixth Circuit

Local ordinance that defined "sexually oriented" activity as "any exhibition of any motion pictures, films or videos depicting 'specified sexual activities' or 'specified anatomical areas'" and 'specified anatomical areas' as partially covered "buttocks and female breasts" is overbroad.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/24/2001
• Decided 12/06/2001
• Published 12/06/2001

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN, Chief Judge;  WELLFORD and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bradley J. Shafer (argued and briefed), Shafer & Associates, P.C., Lansing, MI, Michael F. Pleasants (briefed), Memphis, TN, H. Louis Sirkin (briefed), Laura A. Abrams, Sirkin, Pinales, Mezibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, OH, John E. Herbison (briefed), Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants for No. 99-5071.


• For Appellees:
  
• Francis H. Young (briefed), Shayna R. Abrams (briefed), Metropolitan Department of Law, Nashville, TN, Karl F. Dean (argued), Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees for No. 99-5071., Bradley J. Shafer (argued and briefed), Andrew K. Wilkins (briefed), Shafer & Associates, P.C., Lansing, MI, Michael F. Pleasants (briefed), Memphis, TN, H. Louis Sirkin (briefed), Laura A. Abrams (briefed), Jennifer M. Kinsley (briefed), Sirkin, Pinales, Mezibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, OH, John E. Herbison (briefed), Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellees/Cross-Appellants for Nos. 00-5284, 00-5288., Francis H. Young (briefed), Shayna R. Abrams (briefed), Metropolitan Department of Law, Nashville, TN, Karl F. Dean (argued), Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellants/Cross-Appellees for Nos. 00-5284, 00-5288., Bradley J. Shafer (argued and briefed), Andrew K. Wilkins (briefed), Shafer & Associates, P.C., Lansing, MI, Michael F. Pleasants, Memphis, TN, H. Louis Sirkin (briefed), Laura A. Abrams, Sirkin, Pinales, Mezibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, OH, John E. Herbison (briefed), Nashville, TN, for Plaintiffs-Appellees for No. 00-5881., James L. Charles, Francis H. Young (briefed), Shayna R. Abrams (briefed), Metropolitan Department of Law, Nashville, TN, Karl F. Dean (argued), Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County, Nashville, TN, for Defendants-Appellants for No. 00-5881.