Legal Opinion

Flanigan's Enterprises, Inc. of Georgia v. City of Sandy Springs, Georgia

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided August 23, 2017No. 14-15499PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

We granted rehearing en banc to review the constitutionality of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the sale of sexual devices in light of several recent Supreme' Court decisions which, it was argued, call into question the continued vitality of this Court’s decision in Williams v. Attorney General (Williams IV), 378 F.3d 1232 (11th Cir. 2004). After we agreed to take the case en banc, the defendant City repealéd the challenged portion of its municipal code and, thus, we are confronted with the *1253threshold jurisdictional question of mootness. Because we see no reasonable…

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