Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Chicago Strip Club Appeal
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a 14-year-old case involving the city of Chicago’s revocation of a club’s licenses for serving alcohol where scantily clad dancers were performing.
The name of the gentlemen’s club in question is VIP’s. Back in 1993 when the club was called Thee Dollhouse, police officers observed dancers exposing parts of their breasts and buttocks that are prohibited under city law. The result was the revocation of the club’s business and liquor licenses. The club had been allowed to continue operating while it was challenging the constitutionality of the law. Now that the court of last resort has refused to hear the case, there are no remaining legal options for VIP’s.
Chicago law prohibits the display of genitals, pubic hair, buttocks, and female areola where alcohol is served. The law goes back nearly 30 years and was supposedly intended to reduce the negative secondary effects on the surrounding community that the combination of liquor and nude or semi-nude dancing could have, whatever those could possibly be.
From 1993 – 2006, there were 9,468 murders in the city of Chicago. There have also been around 200,000 robberies and thousands of rapes during that period of time. It’s a good thing the city has been working hard to make sure guys can’t sip beer while they look at women’s breasts, isn’t it?