After a seven-year legal battle, Knoxville's ordinance to control so-called adult businesses has been struck down as unconstitutionally vague by the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Associated Press reported.
The city already has replaced the ordinance with a more tightly constructed law.
The Fantasy Video store, owned by a Nashville-based company that was at the heart of the case long ago, lost its lease and closed. But attorney Richard Gaines, who represented the store's owners, said the litigation may not be over.
The Supreme Court said in its ruling released last week that the company is "entitled to a determination of damages," which may run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The store, opened in 1998, offered family fare movies in the front and some 3,500 sexually explicit videos in a back room.
