This case was mentioned in passing here but here is more bad information and the link to the case.
9th Circuit Decision bad news for lap dancing
The usually liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (which decides cases in AZ as well as CA) has upheld a two-foot rule law that ends lap dancing. The ruling says regarding the erotic message (free expression) "Although the message may be slightly impaired from this distance, it cannot be that a dancer's performance 'no longer conveys eroticism' from two feet away."
Furthermore, the judge reasoned, "the ordinance was thoroughly researched and narrowly tailored to combat the negative side effects of adult businesses that the city's research identified" and thus is not too "vague or overbroad." La Habra enacted the ordinance in question because the activity leads to prostitution, crime, drug use and disease.
The decision was published January 26, 2005 and is at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/832B8C120133166A88256F95000427F2/$file/0456072.pdf?openelement![]()




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