Supreme Court· 7/7/1986

Arcara v. Cloud Books, Inc.

Citations

478 U.S. 697
106 S. Ct. 3172
92 L. Ed. 2d 568
1986 U.S. LEXIS 140
54 U.S.L.W. 5060

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holding that First Amendment did not preclude closing of adult bookstore, pursuant to generally applicable nuisance statute, when solicitation of prostitution was occurring on premises
holding that because the state public indecency statute targeted unprotected conduct, incidental burden on speech inherent in complying with the law was constitutional
holding that enforcement of a generally applicable law prohibiting use of premises for prostitution or lewd behavior against a bookstore did not implicate the First Amendment
stating that the First Amendment is not implicated when “government is regulating neither speech nor an incidental, nonex-pressive effect of speech”
holding “First Amendment is not implicated by the enforcement of a public health regulation of general application”
stating that constitutional scrutiny will be applied “only where it was conduct with a significant expressive element that drew the legal remedy in the first place”

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Judges: Burger, White, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall

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