Legal Opinion
Bzaps, Inc., Doing Business as Buster's Bar v. City of Mankato
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 12, 2001No. 00-3214PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
BZAPS, Inc., contracted with a group known as “Fatal Attraction,” a male dance revue that performs in various states of nudity, to perform for one night at Buster’s Bar, owned by BZAPS in Mankato, Minnesota. When a BZAPS representative contacted the city planning director regarding the permissibility of this performance, the planning director stated that such a performance would violate Mankato City Ordinance § 10.83(4)(A), which allows adult uses only in zoning areas different from the one in which Buster’s Bar is located.
*605BZAPS sued the city, claiming…
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