Florida Businessmen for Free Enterprise v. City of Hollywood

673 F.2d 1213, 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 19867
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
DecidedApril 23, 1982
DocketNos. 80-5769, 80-5813
StatusPublished
Cited by58 cases

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Florida Businessmen for Free Enterprise v. City of Hollywood, 673 F.2d 1213, 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 19867 (11th Cir. 1982).

Opinion

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated appeal involves a review of the constitutionality of drug paraphernalia laws enacted by the State of Florida and the City of Hollywood to curb the increased incidence of drug abuse. The District Court for the Northern District of Florida upheld the state “head shop” law, but declared unconstitutionally vague and severed a portion of the statute prohibiting mere possession of drug paraphernalia. The District Court for the Southern District of Florida upheld a city ordinance which defines drug paraphernalia and prohibits its possession, manufacture, or sale in Hollywood. We affirm both decisions.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Proceedings Below

Appellants, Florida Businessmen for Free Enterprise, High Quality Headquarters, Inc., and Correct Count Company, Inc. (hereinafter State Merchants), as representatives of a plaintiff class of manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of arguably out[1216]*1216lawed items, sought injunctive and declaratory relief from enforcement of Florida’s allegedly unconstitutionally vague and overbroad “head shop” law. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida granted the state’s motion to dismiss and certified defendants Katsaris, Sheriff of Leon County, and Morrison, State’s Attorney for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida, as representatives of the defendant class solely for the purpose of restraint by injunction. The court declared a provision of the statute unconstitutional, upheld the remainder and issued a stay and injunction pending appeal prohibiting enforcement of the law in its entirety.

Appellants, Florida Businessmen for Free Enterprise and M. P. D’Errico & Sons, Florida, Inc. (hereinafter Hollywood Merchants), sought declaratory and injunctive relief in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida from the enforcement of an allegedly unconstitutionally vague and overbroad ordinance of the City of Hollywood, Florida. The district court denied the Hollywood Merchants’ motion for a temporary restraining order, and pursuant to Rule 65(a)(2), Fed.R.Civ.P., consolidated the hearing on the preliminary injunction with the trial on the merits. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court upheld the ordinance under the fourteenth amendment due process clause and the first amendment and denied the Hollywood Merchants’ motion for a stay pending appeal. A panel of the Fifth Circuit entered an injunction pending appeal precluding enforcement of the ordinance.

B. The Drug Paraphernalia Laws

The state head shop law, Fla.Stat. §§ 893.145-.147 (Supp.1982), like its city ordinance counterpart, is modelled after the Model Drug Paraphernalia Act (MDPA) (1975), drafted by the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States Department of Justice. See Appendix A (setting forth text of state statute). Unlike the Hollywood ordinance and the MDPA, however, the state law mandates consideration of thirteen factors in determining whether an object is drug paraphernalia, whereas consideration of these same factors in the Hollywood ordinance and the MDPA is discretionary.

Hollywood, Florida, Ordinance No. 0-80-15 (Feb. 20, 1980), prohibits the use, possession with intent to use, manufacture, delivery, and advertisement of drug paraphernalia. See Appendix B (reprinting text of ordinance). “Drug paraphernalia” is defined as all items “used, intended for use, or designed for use” with controlled substances. A non-exclusive list of items within the ambit of the ordinance supplements the definitional section. The ordinance also permits consideration of fourteen factors in addition to “other logically relevant factors” in determining whether an object is drug paraphernalia. Section 21-82, which proscribes the manufacture and delivery of drug paraphernalia, and section 21-83, which proscribes the advertisement of drug paraphernalia, punishes the commission of those acts by one who knows or “reasonably should know” that the object will be used with illicit drugs or that the advertisement’s purpose is to promote the sale of prohibited drug paraphernalia.

II. ISSUES

We must consider (1) whether the definition of “drug paraphernalia” and the prohibition against advertising drug paraphernalia are unconstitutionally overbroad; and (2) whether the definition of “drug paraphernalia” and the scienter requirement in these laws are impermissibly vague.

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