Fly Fish, Inc. v. City of Cocoa Beach

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a licensing fee on adult entertainment establishments is controlled by Cox and Murdock and must be reasonably related to recouping the costs of administering the licensing program”
• holding as unconstitutional a $1,250 fee per adult business because the “City ... conducted no real accounting of the costs of administering its licensing program”
• evaluating an ordinance that prohibited “totally nude” dancing in “adult entertainment-establishments” under the Renton intermediate scrutiny framework
• rec- ognizing that the Supreme Court has extended “the secondary effects rationale of Renton beyond its zoning context to the regulation of expressive conduct”
• “If the message of nude dancing is eroticism, then [the challenged law] may properly be characterized as a Renton-type of time, place, or manner regulation. It does not ban erotic dancing, but rather to- tally nude dancing in an adult entertainment establishment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).