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· 11/25/2003

N W Enterprises Inc v. The City of Houston

Citations

  • 352 F.3d 162
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 24021
  • 2003 WL 22792244

How courts have described this case

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

  • emphasizing that, under Renton and Alameda Books, courts must “respect[] local legislators’ superior understanding of local problems”
  • noting that a \failure to provide legal or factual analysis results in waiver\
  • noting that a “failure to provide legal or factual analysis results in waiver”
  • rejecting strict scrutiny and upholding a requirement that strip club staff wear visible identification badges
  • interpreting Justice Kennedy’s concurrence to mean that “the City may not use its regulation to eliminate businesses as a means to reduce their secondary effects” (emphasis added)
  • lighting requirements for sexually oriented businesses were “narrowly tailored to serve the City’s substantial government interest in decreasing the commission of such crimes as public lewdness and prostitution”

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Judges: Garwood, Jones, Stewart

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