EDIT: Oops, sorry, I had two windows open when I posted this and I meant to put it in the general forum.
When I was stripping full time (in the 1980s and 1990s), Fulton County is the county in which I did over ten thousand table dances.
Text from the Free Speech X-Press
http://www.freespeechcoalition.com
'FULTON COUNTY, GA -- Fulton County is well known in First Amendment circles as the scene of an important victory in the U.S. Eleventh Circuit, in which Fulton County’s own studies failed to show the secondary effects which had formed the basis of their law. (See Flanigan's Enterprises, Inc. of Georgia v. Fulton County, Georgia in FCS’s Case Library,
http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/c...ary.htm#case22)
'Now Fulton County is back on stage in a similar case, this time in the Georgia Supreme Court. In May, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Marvin S. Arrington Sr. struck down -- as unconstitutional prior restraints on free speech -- the county's ordinances regulating nude-dancing establishments that serve alcohol. This time the law is being challenged by Maxim Cabaret. Somewhat amazingly, Assistant County Attorney Steven E. Rosenberg cites the same 2001 study that went down in flames at the Eleventh Circuit. but this time with a different focus. In Flanigan’s it was noted that the study showed no increase in crime at adult entertainment establishments that served alcoholic beverages over non-adult entertainment establishments that served alcoholic beverages. In fact, it was the opposite. There were greater instances of calls for service and reported crime at the non-adult bars.
'In the present case (Fulton County v. Maxim Cabaret, No. S05A1893) the county compares crime statistics near the county's five alcohol-serving exotic dance clubs with Maxim Cabaret's predecessor, The Coronet Club, which did not serve alcohol. Rosenberg argues that alcohol-serving adult entertainment clubs are more prone to crime than similar clubs that do not serve alcohol: "The Coronet had about 4 percent of the total criminal activity," while the other five clubs "accounted for nearly 96 percent," says Rosenberg.
'From Law.com, 11/14/05
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1131714655407'



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