Atlanta Strip Clubs: Cabaret Loses Battle Over Alcohol Ordinance
Posted on February 22nd, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs
Cabaret Loses Battle Over Alcohol Ordinance
ATLANTA (CN) – A federal judge denied a strip club owner’s request to stop a city ordinance banning alcohol in adult businesses, finding that the club owner failed to show that the city’s decision was unreasonable.
In March 2010, the city council for Atlanta suburb Forest Park, Ga. passed an adult-entertainment ordinance banning the consumption or sale of alcohol in adult-entertainment establishments after Jan. 1, 2011, among other provisions.
Jack Galardi, the owner of two adult entertainment businesses located in Forest Park, challenged the alcohol provision of the ordinance. Galardi, who operates more than ten strip clubs scattered through Georgia, Florida and Nevada, filed a motion for preliminary injunction, seeking to prevent the enforcement of the ordinance.
In rejecting the injunction, U.S. District Judge Richard W. Story relied heavily on precedent set by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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