United States Fifth Circuit

A city had a substantial government interest in adopting an ordinance imposing various licensing and zoning regulations on sexually-oriented businesses, as a result of adverse secondary effects of such businesses, and the city provides those businesses with reasonable alternative avenues of communication.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/07/2003
• Published 08/07/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and FALLON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jennifer Scott Riggs (argued), Hill, Gilstap, Adams & Graham, Austin, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Scott Dean Bergthold (argued), Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold, Scottsdale, AZ, for Community Defense Counsel, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lowell Frank Denton, George E. Hyde (argued), Denton, Navarro, Rocha & Bernal, San Antonio, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.