[1] Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium is a bookstore in Vancouver, British Columbia, that sells gay and lesbian-related literature.

At trial, the court found that the customs has targeted shipments to the bookstore and attempted to prevent their entry into Canada.

However, they found that the way the law was implemented by customs officials was discriminatory and should be remedied, an opinion they suggested would avail the bookstore in any further legal battles.

They also struck down part of the law that put the onus on an importer to prove material was not obscene.

The ruling, therefore, upheld Canada Customs' right to prevent the importation of material that had already been banned as obscene by the courts, but curtailed the agency's right to preemptively or punitively detain material that had not been so adjudicated.