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Book Store To Appeal Records Ruling
DENVER (AP) -- The First Amendment battle over letting police see a book store's sales records in a drug case may be going the Colorado Supreme Court.
Both the book store owner and Denver authorities agreed Thursday to ask the state appeals court to let the case go straight to the state's highest court.
Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, said she was appealing a lower court ruling that ordered her to tell police who bought two books on psychedelic drug making from her shop.
Police sought the records after finding an envelope from her shop outside a mobile home they had raided. Inside the home were a methamphetamine lab and the drug-making how-to books.
Authorities agreed the case should go straight to the high court to expedite the drug investigation.
On Oct. 20, Denver District Judge J. Stephens Phillips ordered the store to give police a copy of the invoice believed to have been in the envelope. But he turned down investigators' original request to see all records of what one person bought during a month's time.
Civil liberties advocates have said the ruling violates readers' privacy rights
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Book Store To Appeal Records Ruling
DENVER (AP) -- The First Amendment battle over letting police see a book store's sales records in a drug case may be going the Colorado Supreme Court.
Both the book store owner and Denver authorities agreed Thursday to ask the state appeals court to let the case go straight to the state's highest court.
Joyce Meskis, owner of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, said she was appealing a lower court ruling that ordered her to tell police who bought two books on psychedelic drug making from her shop.
Police sought the records after finding an envelope from her shop outside a mobile home they had raided. Inside the home were a methamphetamine lab and the drug-making how-to books.
Authorities agreed the case should go straight to the high court to expedite the drug investigation.
On Oct. 20, Denver District Judge J. Stephens Phillips ordered the store to give police a copy of the invoice believed to have been in the envelope. But he turned down investigators' original request to see all records of what one person bought during a month's time.
Civil liberties advocates have said the ruling violates readers' privacy rights
http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/national/ap100.htm