An enlightened community? You be the judge. This article in the Arizona Journal reports that Scottsdale residents voted “No!” on a measure that would have banned lap dances. Whodda thunk it.
Just how old are you?
September 24, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Is Store Sexually Oriented?
September 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I stumbled across How Appealing‘s post to this article in The Dallas Morning News. At issue is whether the store is fairly characterized as an ‘adult’ store, given its nondescript inventory. The City says yes; the store says no. Our law firm is litigating similar issues with increasing frequency. Local governments enjoy wide latitude (courtesy [...]
The strip club lottery
September 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Bars & Poker
September 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“Gambling, drugs, sex and, of course, booze – by 1916, 23 of the 48 states, more than half, had passed local prohibitions on alcoholic beverages. It was thus not a big surprise when Prohibition was written into federal law. In 2006, bars can obviously serve booze (although in states like California, they are not allowed [...]
Eat more, drink less
September 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment
No, that’s not advice from your dietitian; it’s a mandate from one city’s liquor board. “Gardel’s class ‘B’ liquor license requires that the eatery serves food to the public, said Samuel T. Daniels Jr., chief inspector and acting executive secretary of Baltimore’s liquor board. But on a visit in February, Daniels found that the majority [...]
Dormant Commerce Clause v. Twenty-first Amendment
September 11, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Today the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided a wine-shipping case in Brooks v. Vassar. The opinion begins: This appeal involves a facial challenge, under the dormant Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, to various aspects of Virginia’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Act (“ABC Act”), Va. Code § 4.1-100 et seq., which generally prohibits the [...]
A new ending for Internet gambling?
September 9, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“The future of all unlicensed forms of internet gambling – from poker to horse racing bets – in at least seven US states was under threat last night after it emerged that the arrest of Peter Dicks, Sportingbet’s British chairman, on Thursday morning at New York’s JFK airport was linked to Louisiana state’s wide-ranging laws [...]
Bye Bye Tax-y-ness
September 8, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Mission accomplished: the town closed its strip club. But “[l]ongtime residents are now finding themselves in the bizarre dilemma of giving thanks for the 1999 closure of the notorious Payne Reliever strip club but missing the steady revenue it produced for the neighborhood,” reports TwinCities.com here. Now the town can scarcely afford its annual 4-day [...]
For all you do … this Bud’s for view
September 6, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“Anheuser-Busch said it would launch a broadband video site, Bud.TV, the latest advertiser to try its hand at branded entertainment online,” reports AdWeek here. It’s no revelation that TV is brought to you by sex, drugs and rock-n-roll. What’ll be interesting is how, if at all, the government attempts to regulate the Net. A funny [...]
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