Artistic Entertainment, Inc. v. City of Warner Robins

How courts have described this case

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• stating that, in a free-speech challenge to a city ordinance, courts “will ‘not strike down an otherwise constitutional statute on the basis of an alleged legislative illicit motive.’”
• “Limiting the ordi- nance’s reach to those venues [i.e., adult-entertainment establish- ments] reasonably perceived to pose a risk of creating such side ef- fects does not turn the ordinance into a content-based re- striction.”
• “Courts are hesitant to inquire into legislators’ motives, however, and we will ‘not strike down an otherwise constitutional statute on the basis of an alleged legislative illicit motive.’ ”

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