Affirmed Superior Court of King County Defendant Washington State Legislature Respondents Washington State Supreme Court Plaintlfs Appellant Do you know what Soundgarden, Heart, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Alice in Chains, Criminal Nation, Seven Year Bitch, Tower Records, A & M Records, Inc.; Atlantic Recording Corporation; BMG Music; CapitolEMT Music, Inc.; C/Z Records; Elektra Entertainment; SUB Pop Limited, Inc.; Warner Brothers Records, Inc.; WGR/SIRE Ventures all have in common? They all joined as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the State of Washington. In 1992, the passed a law called the \"Erotic Sound Recordings" statute (House Bill 2554, Laws of 1992, ch. 5, codied as RCW 9.68.050, .060, .070. The law would have required record stores to put \"Adults Only\" labels on recordings that were deemed to be \"erotic\" under this denition: (2) \"Erotic material\" means printed material, photographs, pictures, motion pictures, sound recordings, and other material the dominant theme of which taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest of minors in sex; which is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters or sadomasochistic abuse; and is utterly without redeeming social value. A number of musical groups and record companies joined together and led a lawsuit in the rst level of the court system in Washington state, the trial court. The name of the court in which they initially led their lawsuit was the . Since the musical groups and record companies bright the lawsuit, they were the in the trial court case. In their initial court document, called the complaint, they asked for an order nding that the "Erotic Sound Recordings" statute (also known as the "Erotic Music Statute") was unconstitutional as a violation of, and prior restraint upon, free speech and due process under the federal and state constitutions. The party that they sued was the State of Washington, which was the in the trial court case. The trial court judge, the Honorable Mary W. Brucker, determined that the statute was invalid and granted an order permanently blocking enforcement of the statute. Normally, the losing party in the trial court must le their appeal in the Washington State Court of Appeals. However, in this special case the losing party, the State of Washington, was allowed to le an appeal directly to the highest court in the State of Washington, called the . As the party who led the appeal, the State of Washington was the in the case, when it reached the highest court in the state. The musical groups and record companies who won in the trial court, were now referred to as the , because they were responding to the appeal led by the state