R.V.S., L.L.C. v. City of Rockford

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government had failed to present sufficient evidence during bench trial to meet its initial burden; remanding for entry of judgment after concluding ordinance, therefore, violated First Amendment
• holding that government had failed to present sufficient evidence during bench trial to meet its initial burden; remanding for entry of judgment after concluding ordinance, therefore, violated First Amendment
• holding that the city had not met even the low evidentiary burden required to support a zoning restriction because the evidence “[did] not appear to be directly relevant to the type of entertainment that Rockford [sought] to regulate”
• stating that “we must examine whether the [o]rdinance was designed to suppress the content of erotic expression or to address the negative secondary effects caused by such expression” (emphasis added)
• stating that “we must examine whether the [ordinance was designed to suppress the content of erotic expression or to address the negative secondary effects caused by such expression” (emphasis added)
• stating that municipalities may not simply assume existence of negative secondary effects

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).