Combs v. TEXAS ENTERTAINMENT ASSOCIATION, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the State’s interest in “reducing the secondary effects of adult businesses” by creating a “disincentive” on the combination of nude dancing and alcohol was “unrelated to the suppression of free expression”
• holding that tax was constitutional r egardless “of what legislators said or did not say” during legislative process and quoting United States v. O’Brien , 391 U.S. 367, 383–84, 88 S. Ct. 1673 (1968
• identifying rape, sexual assault, prostitution, disorderly conduct among “crimes and social ills” that are “negative secondary effects” of combining alcohol and nude dancing
• “The State has an important interest in reducing the secondary effects of adult businesses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).