Meeting the Sin Laws
Musings on laws affecting adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages and other "vice" industries.
Author: Cary S. Wiggins practices at Cook Youngelson & Wiggins, an Atlanta law firm specializing in Georgia's restaurant and hospitality industry.
Blawg Related Categories: Administrative Law • Civil Rights • Constitutional Law • First Amendment • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Meeting the Sin Laws
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Saggy Pants Law Struck Down …
… is the title of this post by my good friend and peer, Marc J. Randazza, over at The Legal Satyricon. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of joining Marc and Jennifer Kinsley on the…
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Fantasies & Foundries
“This case arises from a dispute regarding the denial of various applications for certificates of occupancy,” innocuosly begins this opinion. We quickly learn the plaintiff’s retail establishments sell,” inter alia, lotions, creams, oils, herbal pills, lingerie, games,…
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No escaping this adult entertainment ordinance
A little over a week ago, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued this (majority) opinion. A divided court (2-1) affirmed that Erie Township did not violate the rights of Alcatraz Industries, Inc. by adopting an ordinance…
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I ain’t no senator’s son
“A Maryland law that sought to block strip clubs in Prince George’s County from selling alcohol carved out an unconstitutional exception for a club that was owned by a former state senator, a federal judge…
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But everbody knows it’s true, right?
The central issue in this appeal concerns the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance adopted by the Township of Cinnaminson that restricts the location where commercial establishments that sell adult videos and novelty items can operate.…
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LaBella’s Loss
Judge Virginia M. Kendall issued this opinion (from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois) last week. It concerns a restaurant (LaBella) that claimed it was the victim of selective enforcement and due…
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Not content with this tax
The Illinois Supreme Court delivered this opinion on Thursday. What’s it about? In 2001, plaintiff, Pooh-Bah Enterprises, Inc., brought suit, in the circuit court of Cook County, for declaratory and injunctive relief against the County.…
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Utah’s alcohol laws
In his article “Bars are about more than drinking,” Daniel Levin ponders Utah’s current private club laws. Which, he notes, “are most often derided because they are so inconvenient and so irrational as to be maddening. But,”…
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Are these dogs commiting a crime?
“Is a friendly, private poker game ‘illegal gambling’?” Rick Alm answered that murky question (sorta) in the Lucky Numbers gambling blog last week (courtesy of The Kansas City Star). Bad doggies.
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The effword.
Over at Language Log, Chris Potts has a great post entitled, ”The Connotations of the F-word.” He begins with a “connotations hypothesis,” being that ”a word’s connotations are reflected in the words that it tends to co-occur…