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Missouri Supreme Court upholds strip club regulations
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s controversial limits on strip clubs and adult book stores will stand, after the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that representatives from the adult entertainment community failed to make an effective case that state lawmakers overstepped their bounds. “While the (adult) businesses attacked and sought to undermine some of (the state’s) [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Supreme Court is set to decide just how much skin Show-Me State strippers are allowed to show. The high court will hear arguments Wednesday concerning a legal challenge to the state’s stringent new regulations on strip clubs and adult bookstores, which owners say violate their free speech rights and [...]
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Exotic Businesses Suffer as New Legal Restraints Take Hold JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Â – A case questioning the validity of Missouri’s so-called “anti-porn bill” is presenting Cole County Circuit Court’s most senior judge with virgin legal territory. “I’ve heard about every constitutional complaint that you can imagine though the years…maybe I’m senile and don’t remember, but [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – An appellate judge rejected the request for temporary relief that Missouri’s adult industry sought from a new law tightening restrictions on their business practices. The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District on Wednesday denied industry attorneys’ request for a temporary restraining order, refusing to overturn the original ruling issued Friday by [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Cole County judge gave the state’s strip clubs and adult bookstores no short-term satisfaction when he refused to delay the onset of rigidified laws set to take effect Saturday. In response, industry attorneys turned to a higher legal authority for help. Please visit our main news site www.monewshorizon.org to read [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Attorneys at odds over the constitutionality of Missouri’s new “anti-porn” law appeared in court Thursday to argue the merits of a temporary restraining order request. The law, which industry attorneys call “nothing short of economically devastating,” is set to take effect Aug. 28. Judge Jon Beetem of the Cole County Circuit [...]
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By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – When lawmakers passed the so-called “anti-porn” bill earlier this year, they worked under the assumption the cost to state and local government would be $100,000 or less. The state may end up paying more than that in court costs associated with defending the legislation that [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Defenders of lap dancing (and other avenues of adult entertainment) are seeking a judge’s protection from a new law they claim is “fatally overbroad” and “nothing short of economically devastating.” The motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction was filed Tuesday in Circuit Court of Cole County. Several plaintiffs [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House on Thursday passed wide-ranging reforms on drunken driving laws, but one of its main sponsors called the final bill “watered down.” The bill expands the use of drunk driving and drug courts, increases penalties for drivers with blood alcohol contents between 1.5 [...]
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