Jeff Chauncey v. H.O. Penn Machinery Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that exempting live cabarets from operating-hour restrictions applicable to adult bookstores was rational because the legislature took a legitimate and “plausible step-by-step approach” to combating secondary effects
• holding that exempting live cabarets from operating-hour restrictions applicable to adult bookstores was rational because the legislature took a legitimate and \plausible step-by-step approach\ to combating secondary effects
• stating that “an exemption will rarely, if ever, invalidate a statute, unless the distinction created by the exemption is the result of invidious discrimination”
• “To withstand Fourteenth Amendment scrutiny, statutes that do not interfere with fundamental rights or single out suspect classifications must bear only a rational relationship to a legitimate state interest.”
• upholding constitutionality of nude dancing regulation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).