Cities Struggle To Regulate Adult Business
They raise the ire of homeowners and merchants, councilmembers and supervisors, police chiefs and chamber of commerce leaders. They are seen as blights on a town, attractions for the wrong element....
View ArticleAdult Bookstore Application Process Fails Before Ninth Circuit
A City of Las Vegas ordinance regarding adult bookstore permits has been declared unconstitutional by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The ruling in the case, known as Baby Tam II, came...
View ArticleLas Vegas Finally Wins A Round In Baby Tam Saga
The latest round in the legal saga of an adult bookstore in Las Vegas has been won by the city. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the city’s regulatory system for adult businesses after...
View ArticleSD County Zoning Ordinance Survives 2 Suits Mostly Intact
San Diego County’s adult business ordinance has mostly survived two federal court challenges. In separate rulings, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the ordinance’s zoning provisions...
View ArticleCal Supremes Throw Out Award Of Damages To Strip Club
A $1.4 million award of damages to the owners of a San Bernardino adult cabaret has been thrown out by the state Supreme Court. In a unanimous ruling, the state high court said that an appellate court...
View ArticleCabaret Loses 1st Amendment Argument Over Use Permit
A state appellate court has upheld the City of Los Angeles’s refusal to grant a conditional use permit for the sale and on-site consumption of alcohol at an adult cabaret. The court ruled that the...
View ArticleAdult Business' First Amendment Rights Prevail Over Procedural Constraints
In a case involving the City of Stanton’s “sensitive use ordinance,” the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled that the city’s handling of an application for an adult business was flawed. On...
View ArticleAnti-Tattoo Zoning Code Violates First Amendment
A city ordinance effectively banning tattoo parlors oversteps constitutional limits protecting freedom of expression, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.A unanimous three-judge panel...
View ArticleLong-Running Adult Bookstore Case Sent Back to District Court
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a District Court’s grant of summary judgment to two adult bookstores. The stores had claimed that a Los Angeles ordinance requiring the dispersal of...
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