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· 5/29/2001

Blue Canary Corporation v. City of Milwaukee

Citations

  • 251 F.3d 1121
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 10987
  • 2001 WL 568473

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that “[l]i-quor and sex are an explosive combination”
  • upholding denial of liquor license to club whose dancers performed in pasties and bikini bottoms
  • noting that “[t]he im- pairment of First Amendment values is slight to the point of being risible since the expressive activity involved in the kind of striptease entertainment provided in a bar has at best a modest social value . . . .”
  • noting that “[l]iquor and sex are an explosive combination”
  • “[W]hile the First Amendment has not been interpreted to be limited.[to freedom from prior restraints], the idea that prior restraints are particularly harmful to expressive freedoms has lingered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Flaum, Posner, Evans

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