… is the title of this article by Ashby Jones for The Wall Street Journal‘s Law Blog. The entry addresses yesterday’s argument before the Texas Supreme Court concerning whether Texas’ “pole tax” on strip clubs’ patrons runs afoul of the First Amendment’s freedom of expression. I mentioned the issue earlier. Enjoy the weekend.
How much is that lawn mower in the window?
March 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Paul Braley (“Braley”) has a leasehold interest in property in Forest Park, Georgia, where he operates a retail salvage store. Since 1984, he has displayed merchandise for sale to the public in front of the store in an area where there is a sidewalk and places to park. In March 2007, the City of Forest [...]
Residential Gambling
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Last month, Ryan Thomas Deiter of Front Royal participated in a poker tournament at a house. Apparently it didn’t go well. Now a Warren County Circuit Court grand jury will decide whether to indict Mr. Deiter for “abduction by force, robbery and use of a firearm after forcing another participant to leave the game at gunpoint and taking between [...]
So it’s gonna be one of those days …
March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Well, there’s an app for that: Sazerac Ice 1 sugar cube 1 ounce water 2 ounces rye whiskey (preferably Sazerac) A few drops Herbsaint or Absinthe Lemon zest “Fill a rocks glass with ice and water and set it aside. Drop a sugar cube into a separate rocks glass and splash with bitters and the water. Muddle [...]
May I rent your stage?
March 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
To hear Quansa Thompson talk of her life as an exotic dancer, to listen to her describe how men offer cash as she sashays, gyrates and jiggles the night away, is to evoke a thousand titillating thoughts, not a single one having anything to do with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. That [...]
Sex sells. But don’t tell anyone.
March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I’m a fan of Mad Men. Friends got me hooked; NetFlix feeds my fix. How would Don Draper and the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency handle these industry issues? Stripper mobile grinds to a halt Appeals court reinstates limits on brothel ads I’m not sure what Don & Co. would do. I bet they’d smoke a little. Drink a little. Repeat. [...]
Timing is everything
March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This case requires us to resolve an interesting and surprisingly unanswered question of First Amendment law: whether the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance should only be evaluated with regard to the “alternative avenues of communication” it leaves open at the time it is passed, or also those it leaves open at the time it is [...]
Faith in the rule of law
March 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
“Outrage over a 20-foot, anatomically correct stallion outside a strip club in rural northern Mississippi could lead to a new law allowing counties to regulate such establishments,” begins this article by Shelia Byrd in BusinessWeek. According to the article, the bill would give Mississippi’s 82 counties the option to draft regulations for strip clubs that [...]
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