Ellwest Stereo Theater, Inc. v. Boner

How courts have described this case

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• holding an ordinance unconstitutionally vague “when the regulating authority cannot determine the establishments which are subject to its authority”
• striking down criminal disclosure requirement on ground that prior felony conviction would not support inference that applicant would be more likely to violate ordinance
• upholding warrantless inspection provision of municipal ordinance regulating adult businesses to the extent that inspections were limited to the public parts of the business
• invalidating $500.00 licensing fees, where fees exceeded costs of their stated purpose
• ordinance is “not unconstitutional simply because it imposes disclosure requirements on adult-oriented establishments which are not imposed on other businesses”
• “there is no government interest in determining the identity and personal history of limited partners and stockholders who ordinarily are not involved in the day-to-day business of the adult-oriented establishments”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).