The mainstreamized adult industry is now 3-15 in the courts this year.
Salt Lake- The Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld South Salt Lake's ban on complete nudity at adult sexually oriented businesses. The ruling was handed down Thursday. In 2001, employees of three South Salt Lake strip clubs and an adult bookstore sought a preliminary injunction against the city, claiming its newly enacted ordinance requiring G-strings and pasties violated their First Amendment rights. The 3rd District Court denied their request. Upon appeal, 10th Circuit justices ruled in favor of the city in 2003. A second appeal, which gave plaintiffs a chance to submit new evidence that would change the court's ruling, failed to clear that hurdle. The city's ordinance requires that employees wear the bare essentials - as at seminude clubs where alcohol is served - to reduce unsanitary conditions and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD). The plaintiffs presented new material that indicated their businesses did not diminish adjacent property values or increase crime in the area, but the justices ruled that the plaintiffs failed to speak to the issues of sanitation or STD. "Accordingly, plaintiffs failed to shift the burden of proof from themselves back to the city," said the decision. Bare-all businesses, by law, cannot serve alcohol. According to the court decision, plaintiffs said the nudity ban would force them to start serving alcohol in order to compete with the city's other seminude adult-entertainment establishments
