Judge strikes down strip club fee
By Corrie MacLaggan | Friday, March 28, 2008, 02:32 PM
A state district judge today ruled that Texas may not collect a $5-per-customer strip club fee that went into effect in January.

Judge Scott Jenkins wrote in an opinion that the fee, "while furthering laudable goals, violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and is therefore invalid."

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[This message was edited by JB on 03-28-08 at .]

How does a fee to see "nekkid wimmin" violate the first amendment?

(I cannot tell you guys how pleased I am that my 610 post includes the phrase "nekkid wimmin".)

Its "Free" expression not "Fee"

All guys know that "nekkid wimmin" have never been free.

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All guys know that "nekkid wimmin" have never been free.

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I was going to object to that, but then I thought; "Hey, he's right!"

Still not free, but $5 cheaper. Ahh, freedom of expression, now we know what those framers really had in mind.

Cohen vows to revive $5-per-patron strip club fee

By CAROLYN FEIBEL
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

State Rep. Ellen Cohen pledged Monday to revive a $5-per-patron strip club fee, three days after a Travis County district judge struck down the law as unconstitutional.

"We are discouraged by Judge Jenkins' verdict, but we are not disheartened," said Cohen, the law's primary sponsor when it was signed into law last June. Later Monday, she traveled to Austin to meet with the Texas Attorney General's Office, which plans to appeal the ruling.


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Pole Tax Revived?

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