United States Fifth Circuit

A judgment sustaining a city's recently enacted Sexually Oriented Business Ordinance is affirmed over business' claim that it was an unconstitutional restriction of their expressive liberties, where: 1) proximity provisions satisfied the four-part test set forth in O'Brien for content-neutral restrictions on symbolic speech; 2) a license revocation provision did not impose an unconstitutional prior restraint on speech; and 3) due-process challenges were either moot or rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2006
• Published 08/03/2006

Judges

• GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, BENAVIDES and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Arthur F. Selander (argued), Quilling, Selander, Cummiskey & Lownds, Dallas, TX, for Cowtown Exposition, Inc. and Tazz Man Inc., Paul J. Cambria, Jr., Roger W. Wilcox, Jr. (argued), Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Salisbury & Cambria, Buffalo, NY, for Fantasy Ranch, Inc. and Harry Freeman.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas Phillip Brandt (argued), Robert Harris Fugate, Stephen Douglas Henninger, Joshua Alan Skinner, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.