Davis v. Mansfield Planning Comm.

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• holding that the states’ Twenty-first Amendment regulatory authority “includes the power to ban nude dancing as part of a liquor license program.”
• finding that states have “broad power under the Twenty-first Amendment to regulate the sale of liquor within its boundaries.”
• upholding the constitutionality of a city ordinance prohibiting nude or nearly nude dancing in local establishments licensed to sell liquor for consumption on the premises
• balancing the State’s interest and power to license liquor retailers with the First Amendment right to individual freedom of expression to dance nude
• upholding the constitutionality of a city ordinance prohibiting nude or nearly nude dancing in local establishments licensed to sell liquor for consumption on the premises
• \the interest in maintaining order outweighs the interest in free expression by dancing nude.\

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