Cinema I Video, Inc. v. Thornburg

Decision Date30 December 1986
Docket NumberNo. 8610SC269,A-F,8610SC269
Citation83 N.C.App. 544,351 S.E.2d 305
CourtNorth Carolina Court of Appeals
PartiesCINEMA I VIDEO, INC. d/b/a Cinema I Video, Sunshine Video, Inc. d/b/a Sunshine Video, Home Video, Inc. d/b/a Home Video, Phillip J. Rink and Douglas Honeycutt d/b/a Home Video, the Video Galleries, Inc. d/b/a the Video Gallery, L & J Electronic, Inc., d/b/a L & J Electronics, Pizza Keg, Inc. d/b/a Showbiz, Video Time, Inc. d/b/a Video Time, Andre, Inc. d/b/a Audio Video Mart, the Video Bar, Inc. d/b/a the Video Bar, the Video Bar, Inc. and A & N, Inc. d/b/a the Video Bar, the Video Bar, Inc. and Video Bar East d/b/a the Video Bar, Jim Allen, Inc., North Carolina Video, Inc. d/b/a North Carolina Video, Multi-Video, Inc. d/b/a Multi-Video, Video Country Corp. d/b/a Video Country, Ronald Cramer d/b/a Video 99 and Video Search, Pic-lick of Shelby, Inc. d/b/a Pic-lick, Pic-lick of Gastonia Inc. d/b/a Pic-lick, Joy Gallyon, Ronnie McLelland and Paul McLelland d/b/a East Side Movies, Joy Gallyon and Tom Fox d/b/a Broadway Movies, John D. McLauchlin and Butch Lucas d/b/a Video Station of Fayetteville, N.C., John D. McLaughlin, Thurman Lucas, E. Scott McLauchlin and John D. McLauchlin, III d/b/a Video Station of Clinton, N.C., C.H. McCubbin, J.A. McCubbin and Phyllis Smith d/b/a Video Showcase, Les Caillouet d/b/a Video World of Greensboro, Christine T. Brewer d/b/a Brewer's Movie Club, Tony G. McDowell d/b/a Great Escapes Video Tape Club, Lee Roy Johnson d/b/a Troutman Video, Jimmy E. Huff d/b/a Star Video, John Allen d/b/a Prime Time Video, Billy E. Overman d/b/a All Star Home Video, Jimmy Dean Wright d/b/a Showcase Video Club, Clenton J. Smith d/b/a Video Way, David M. Magill d/b/a Silver Screen Video, Video City of Raleigh, Inc. d/b/a Video City v. Lacy H. THORNBURG, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, Robert E. Thomas, District Attorney for the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District of North Carolina, George E. Hunt, District Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial District of North Carolina, John W. Twisdale, District Attorney for the Eleventh Judicial District of Nor
North Carolina Corporation; J & J Video Tape Exchange, a Partnership; Salisbury Video, a Partnership; Salisbury

News, a Partnership, Etta Mae Mothershead, d/b/a R & R

Entertainment Center; Danan Enterprises, Inc., a North
Carolina Corporation; Adult Trading Post, a Partnership; W
& S Enterprises, Ltd., a North Carolina Corporation; Show

Biz, a Partnership; Sharon S. Bundy, d/b/a Video Tracs;

Robert T. Cadieu, Sr., d/b/a Cathy's Video, Too; Cathy's

Book Swap/Video, a Partnership; Jack Elliott d/b/a City

News Video; J, J & B Enterprises, a North Carolina

Corporation; Johnny T. Allen, Jr., d/b/a Prime Time Video;

Evelyn L. Hatcher, d/b/a L.A. Video Rentals; Empire Video,

Inc., a North Carolina Corporation; W.S.J., Inc., a North

Carolina Corporation; Pierres of Wilmington, Inc., a North

Carolina Corporation; H & H Enterprises of Wilmington,

Inc., a North Carolina Corporation; Mind's Eye, Inc., a North Carolina Corporation; Crown Video Unlimited, Inc., a North Carolina Corporation; Camera's Eye, Inc., a North

Carolina Corporation; and Bill Wilkerson d/b/a XXX, Inn

v.

Lacy H. THORNBURG, Attorney General of the State of North
Carolina, James E. Roberts, District Attorney for the Nineteenth (A) Judicial District of North Carolina, H.W.
Zimmerman, Jr., District Attorney for the Twenty-Second
Judicial District of North Carolina, George E. Hunt, District Attorney for the Fifteenth (A) Judicial District of North Carolina, Lamar Dowda, District Attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial District of North Carolina, Peter S.
Gilchrist, III, District Attorney for the Twenty-Sixth
Judicial District of North Carolina, W. Hampton Childs, Jr., District Attorney for the Twenty-Seventh (B) Judicial
District of North Carolina, Edward W. Grannis, Jr., District
Attorney for the Twelfth Judicial District of North
Carolina, Jerry L. Spivey, District Attorney for the Fifth
Judicial District of North Carolina, William H. Andrews, District Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District of North
Carolina, Joe Freeman Britt, District Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District of North Carolina, Howard S.
Boney, Jr., District Attorney for the Seventh Judicial
District of North Carolina, Donald M. Jacobs, District

Attorney for the Eighth Judicial District of North Carolina,

J. Randolph Riley, District Attorney for the Tenth Judicial

District of North Carolina, W. David McFayden, Jr., District

Attorney for the Third Judicial District of North Carolina,

John W. Twisdale, District Attorney for the Eleventh

Judicial District of North Carolina.

No. 8610SC269.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Dec. 30, 1986.

Kirby, Wallace, Creech, Sarda & Zaytoun by David F. Kirby and Robert E. Zaytoun, Raleigh and Whitley, Coley &...

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