Highland Tap of Boston, Inc. v. City of Boston

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing in dicta the “growing support for the right of municipalities through the use of their zoning power to limit adult entertainment to certain defined geographic areas”
• “[Tjhere is growing support for the right of municipalities through the use of their zoning power to limit adult entertainment to certain defined geographic areas.”
• ‘To be constitutionally valid, a licensing scheme which functions as a prior restraint must operate within ‘narrow, objective, and definite standards’ ”
• applicable standard is \whether the single justice abused [their] discretion by entering an order without having a supportable basis for doing so\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).