U.S. Supreme Court Won't Hear Strip Club Fee Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up the adult entertainment industry's lawsuit against the state's $5-per-patron strip club tax, justices decided Monday.
“Texas is now one step closer to a sustainable source of funding for rape crisis centers, and most importantly, for supporting sexual assault survivors in their recovery,” said Annette Burrhus Clay, executive director of the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault.
That means the Texas Supreme Court's ruling — that the fee does not violate the First Amendment — stands. But it doesn't mean that the industry, years into its legal battle, can't file ...
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namoyer
Maybe the dancers should incorporate or become LLCs, so their free speech would be protected by their "personhood."
Juan Reynoso
What is Strip club, If you ever was a patron of one of these clubs and observed what is going on in these clubs, you will demand the closing of all these clubs, they are centers of prostitution, drug and human trafficking. The big problem is that corrupt lawyers, defended for year their operation in the name of our constitution their argument is that they are protected under the law. My question is where in our constitution say that corruption, human trafficking and promoting prostitution is legal. Fellow Texas this country is being destroy by the corrupt legal system, in the name of our constitutional rights they misused our US Constitution to win their cases, not matter the truth or our christian values the only thing that matters to them is money and reputation of winning cases, so they can be hire by the criminals"Money will buy the best defense" Why, because lawyers and judges work together to exploit their position, they play the charade of enforcing the law, but to the people that is well inform it is clear that they are corrupt to the bone. Fellow Texans our judicial system is corrupt, most lawyers are interest only in the money, they are educated and indoctrinated that to win at all cost is in the best interest of their career, their values and honor are gone and destroy by the love of money and power; most the seek political office because is the most lucrative place for them to work with zero accountability.