Banknote Club & Stan's Boilermaker v. City of Dallas

CARVER, Justice.

Banknote Club, a private club holding a permit from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to sell alcoholic beverages, and Stan’s Boilermaker, a public establishment also holding a permit to sell alcoholic beverages, sought an injunction to prevent the City of Dallas from applying to them regulatory city ordinances, with fees, relative to dance halls and theaters, on the ground that the state legislature had pre-empted the regulation of permittees to the exclusion of regulation by the City. The trial court denied relief. We affirm and hold that the legislature, in creating…