from www.ocweekly.com – An Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the city of Fullerton proceeding with its misdemeanor criminal case against the Naughty Teddy adult shop.

In July 2010, two months after the shop opened at 129 W. Commonwealth Ave., owner Dawn Aquino was charged with lying to get a city business license, while she and co-owner Lanny Cohen were also accused of operating an adult store in an area not properly zoned for it.

The shop owners, through their attorney, veteran adult-industry defender Roger Jon Diamond [pictured], had filed a three-part motion seeking to dismiss the case because the city’s adult-business-license permit process is too lengthy, unconstitutionally vague and nearly impossible to get.

But Superior Court Judge Nicholas S. Thompson of the Fullerton North Justice Center denied the motions, calling them “too much of a leap and too speculative.”

Under protest and Thompson’s orders, the Naughty Teddy will apply for an adult-use permit so Diamond can argue against the store’s need for it. The owners claim it is not an adult business and the shop has never even been visited by cops.

Well, at least not in uniform.

Liberal Democrat Diamond sounds like a libertarian Orange County Register editorial-page writer.

“It’s hard in California to start a business,” Diamond reportedly says. “Government regulations are strangling our society.”

Like a cock ring.