Cleveland Strip Clubs: Judge upholds just-look-don’t-touch strip club law
Judge upholds just-look-don’t-touch strip club law
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A federal judge has upheld Ohio’s ”no-touch” law for strip clubs in Akron and around the state.
A group of adult entertainment owners and the Buckeye Association of Club Executives, a not-for-profit trade group that represents cabarets and adult bookstores, had sued in U.S. District Court seeking to have the state’s no-touch law declared unconstitutional.
Akron was among several cities and counties named as defendants in the lawsuit filed in October 2007. The suit came in reaction to new state laws covering exotic dance clubs and adult bookstores.
Judge Solomon Oliver Jr., in a 45-page decision released Monday, granted motions by local government attorneys to have the suit dismissed.
A message left with Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan, a Cleveland law firm representing the adult entertainment groups, was not returned.
Oliver found that the state law that bans exotic dancers and customers from touching each other does not violate First Amendment or other constitutional rights of the busi …