Atlanta Strip Clubs: Fulton wins ruling in effort to ban alcohol at strip clubs
Posted on February 16th, 2010 in Atlanta strip clubs
Fulton wins ruling in effort to ban alcohol at strip clubs
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The ordinance, passed in 2001, was challenged by strip club owners in a federal lawsuit that contended the law infringed on their free speech rights. A federal judge agreed, striking down the ordinance as unconstitutional.
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The 11th Circuit’s ruling does not turn off the taps yet at the three strip clubs in unincorporated Fulton County — Babes, Fannies and Riley’s. Other facets of the clubs’ challenge to the county ordinance are still alive and will now be considered by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert Vining.
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While the evidence has its limitations, Judge Stanley Marcus said, “it certainly creates a vivid image of a county in which strip clubs that served alcohol played a prominent and unwelcome role. Sex and drug crimes occurred in and around the clubs and the neighborhood’s cheap hotels, and required law enforcement and the judiciary (the juvenile court, at least) to invest resources in combating the secondary effects.”
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