Cabaret Loses 1st Amendment Argument Over Use Permit
Submitted by Paul Shigley on 28 May 2009 - 11:09am
A state appellate court has upheld the City of Los Angeles’s refusal to grant a conditional use permit for the sale and on-site consumption of alcohol at an adult cabaret. The court ruled that the decision to deny the permit strictly concerned alcohol and did not prohibit the expression of protected speech.