Court Opinion

ID: 9570315
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:22:16.869667+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:05:43.993150
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Sears, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority that the trial court’s judgment must be reversed. I write to emphasize two points. First, the majority opinion does not address several issues raised by the appellants that do not relate to the First Amendment issue on which the Court reverses. As to those issues, the Court’s silence does not amount to an affirmance of the trial court’s ruling on them. Instead, by reversing the grant of *712the motion to dismiss, this Court has effectively reinstated the appellants’ complaint.
Decided December 5, 1994.
Michael E. Gamer, Hillard J. Quint, Steven M. Youngelson, for appellants.
Eugene H. Polleys, Jr., for appellees.
Second, with regard to the City of Columbus’s burden to produce evidence of secondary effects of appellants’ adult entertainment establishments, I write to emphasize that for the city’s ordinance to pass constitutional muster the city must have relied on that evidence “in passing the municipal ordinance.” Discotheque, Inc. v. City Council of Augusta, 264 Ga. 623, 624 (449 SE2d 608) (1994).
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Hunt joins in this concurrence.