Legal Opinion
Powell v. City of Anchorage
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided June 13, 1975No. 2001PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.
Petitioner Darion Powell owns an Anchorage cocktail lounge known as The Embers. The Embers, and several other local bistrqs, have in recent times gained a measure of notoriety by providing for their customers’ viewing pleasure “topless and bottomless” dancers. Section 4-3 (g) and (r) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Anchorage prohibits a person from either appearing or authorizing another person to appear “in a licensed premises in. which intoxicating liquor is offered for sale or consumed” while so “costumed or dressed so that the genitalia or pubic…
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