James O. Pollard, Etc. v. Lila Cockrell, Etc.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

In this case we review a constitutional challenge to several portions of a massage parlor ordinance adopted by the San Antonio City Council in 1976. Although our task is complicated by several important procedural hurdles — most arising out of a similar challenge contemporaneously filed in state court — we hold that the district court properly exercised its jurisdiction over this case and correctly adjudicated the constitutionality of those portions of the ordinance that it considered. We remand so that the court below may rule upon the remaining challenged sections.

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