WESTBROOK, Maine — The owner of a strip club that was open for one day before being shut down says he won’t appeal following a federal judge’s ruling that the city of Westbrook didn’t violate his constitutional rights by revoking the club’s occupancy permit.
Lawrence Ferrante filed a lawsuit against Westbrook in September 2010 a couple of weeks after the city shut down his full-nudity club, Dreamers Cabaret, the day after it opened. The city later enacted a nude entertainment ordinance.
Ferrante argued that the city didn’t have an ordinance prohibiting nude dancing and was violating his right to freedom of expression by shutting down the club.
Magistrate Judge John Rich III last Thursday ruled in favor of Westbrook.
Ferrante told the Portland Press Herald he doesn’t plan to appeal.
So where DO WE GO for a strip show , nowadays ??
Jay, Maine….. Steppin’ Out
Thanks for the tip.
I’m on my way.
Tuck in the kids, kiss the babysitter goodbye
and Im on the road for a show.
Westbrook Town Fathers are certainly entitled to their opinion on the public availability of T & A in their fair city. But federal judge notwithstanding, to lower the boom on this guys operation and then pass a law enabling and authorizing what they did, stinks to high heaven. Government that makes up their authority as they go along bodes ill for T&A and anything else in the public interest in Westbrook. You know the rule of law and that sort of thing, whatever happened to it?
Yes, we wonder whatever happened to it. I have some old law books that I’ve picked up cheap at yard sales over the years. Try reading stuff like that and then watch what goes down in the modern courtroom. It’s like two different worlds.