Camille Corporation, an Illinois Corporation v. William Phares

705 F.2d 223, 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 28857
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
DecidedApril 13, 1983
Docket82-1410
StatusPublished
Cited by18 cases

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Camille Corporation, an Illinois Corporation v. William Phares, 705 F.2d 223, 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 28857 (7th Cir. 1983).

Opinion

PELL, Circuit Judge.

Camille Corporation (Camille), doing business as “Sight and Sound,” retails merchandise such as T-shirts, records, tobacco, cigarette papers, and smoking accessories in East Moline, Illinois. Camille sought declaratory and injunctive relief below, claiming that the City of East Moline’s drug paraphernalia ordinance is facially unconstitutional. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, who were named both individually and in their capacity as officials of East Moline.

At issue on appeal are: (1) whether the ordinance is violative of the First Amendment right to commercial speech; (2) whether the ordinance is violative of the Equal Protection Clause; (3) whether the ordinance constitutes an impermissible interference with interstate commerce; and (4) whether the ordinance violates the Due Process Clause by reason of its claimed vagueness and overbreadth.

*226 I. BACKGROUND

A. The Ordinance

In December, 1980, the City of East Mo-line, Illinois (East Moline) amended its police regulations by enacting an ordinance entitled “Drug Paraphernalia” (East Moline ordinance). The enactment is based on the Model Drug Paraphernalia Act, drafted by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice (Model Act). 1

Section 1(A)(1) of the East Moline ordinance defines drug paraphernalia. The definition refers to “all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use” with substances that are controlled pursuant to Illinois law. This general definition is followed by a list of twelve non-exhaustive examples of drug paraphernalia. East Mo-line ordinance, § l(A)(l)(a)-(7). Each of the objects listed in the twelve examples is characterized as drug paraphernalia if it is “used, intended for use, or designed for use” with controlled substances. Id. The twelfth example, “Objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marihuana, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body” is followed by a similarly nonexhaustive list of thirteen examples. Id. § 1(A)(1)(7)(1)-(13).

Section 1(A)(2) of the ordinance lists fourteen factors that “a court or other authority should consider, in addition to all other logically relevant factors” in determining whether an object is classifiable as drug paraphernalia. These factors, which are challenged by Camille, are discussed in detail, infra.

Sections 1(B), (C), (D), and (E) state the substantive prohibitions of the ordinance: possession of drug paraphernalia, § 1(B), manufacture or delivery of drug paraphernalia, § 1(C), delivery of drug paraphernalia to a minor, § 1(D), and advertisement of drug paraphernalia, § 1(E). Camille’s First Amendment claim specifically challenges Section 1(E). The only other substantive section to which Camille’s brief refers even indirectly is Section 1(C) which makes possession with intent to deliver or delivery of drug paraphernalia an offense if it occurs where one “know[s] or under circumstances where one reasonably should know” that the paraphernalia be used in connection with controlled substances.

Section 1(F), denominated “Penalty” refers to Section 1-4-1 of the City Code which in turn provides for a fine of not less than ten dollars or greater than five hundred dollars. An offense punishable by this section is denominated a misdemeanor and further permits “incarceration in a penal institution other than the penitentiary not to exceed six (6) months in addition to any fine that may be imposed.” East Moline City Code, § 1-4-1. Section 1(G) provides for forfeiture, pursuant to Illinois law, of any drug paraphernalia, as defined by the ordinance.

Trivial differences in organization aside, the East Moline ordinance parallels precisely the Model Act with one exception: the model legislation includes a severability clause which is absent in the East Moline ordinance.

B. Proceedings

The plaintiff brought suit in the Rock Island, Illinois circuit court seeking a declaratory judgment that the ordinance was violative of the First, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, as well as the Commerce Clause, of the United States Constitution. Camille sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief. On the defendants’ petition, the cause was removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Following the filing of pre-trial memoranda by both parties and subsequent motions for summary judgment, the district judge entered summary judgment for the defendants.

Following the filing of the parties’ initial briefs, this court issued its decisions in Record Head Corp. v. Sachen, 682 F.2d 672 (7th Cir.1982) (Record Head), and Levas v. Vil *227 lage of Antioch, 684 F.2d 446 (7th Cir.1982) (Antioch). The parties submitted supplemental memoranda, pursuant to court order, analyzing the impact of those two cases and of the Supreme Court disposition in Village of Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., 455 U.S. 489, 102 S.Ct. 1186, 72 L.Ed.2d 476 (1982) (Hoffman Estates).

II. IMPACT OF SUPREME COURT AND SEVENTH CIRCUIT PRECEDENT

In Hoffman Estates, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an ordinance requiring the licensing of businesses that sold any items “designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs.” Two Seventh Circuit cases, Record Head and Antioch, have discussed the impact of Hoffman Estates on the method of analysis to be employed in evaluating the constitutionality of drug paraphernalia legislation. That general discussion will not be repeated here.

A majority of the panel in Record Head upheld the finding of the judge below that the ordinance at issue was unconstitutionally vague. The ordinance involved in Record Head differed significantly from the Model Act. See 682 F.2d at 675. By contrast, the legislation challenged in Antioch was based on the model legislation. The Antioch district court had deleted some aspects of the ordinance pursuant to the severability clause contained in that enactment. Those deletions were not challenged on appeal. The ordinance, as reviewed by this court, was found constitutional.

Record Head and Antioch directly answer several of the arguments raised by Camille in this case. First, Antioch noted that, under Hoffman Estates,

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