Supreme Court declines to review Dallas strip club curfew ordinance case

The ordinance that requires sexually-oriented businesses to close between 2 and 6 a.m. passed in 2022. It faced pushback and enforcement didn't start until November.DALLAS — The Supreme Court says it won’t review a federal appeals court decision that allowed Dallas to begin enforcing an ordinance requiring strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses to close between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.

The Supreme Court Monday denied a petition to review the case from the Association of Club Executives of Dallas, a local branch of a trade group whose members include some sexually oriented businesses. The Supreme Court didn’t issue an opinion.. Police and other city officials had argued the measure could help reduce violent crime offenses. There were previously no city restrictions on hours of operation for strip clubs or adult video stores, as WFAA reported at the time.

The association and businesses sued the city the day the measure was passed, arguing the ordinance violated their constitutional right to free expression. In October, though, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals“We cannot say that the Ordinance substantially or disproportionately restricts speech,” the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling read.

The group and businesses’ petition to the Supreme Court to review the case sought to cast doubt on the city’s data used to justify the ordinance’s passage and argued that it violated free speech rights. Dallas police said each of the 34 sexually-oriented businesses in the city were notified of the ordinance and were in compliance after the first day of enforcement in November.from Deputy City Manager Jon Fortune said two businesses had their licenses suspended after police investigators determined they violated the ordinance. One of the businesses served its suspension and got back in compliance and the other business appealed, according to the memo.

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