Pellman v. Valentine

This is an application under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act for an order requiring the Police Commissioner of the City of New York to issue to each of the petitioners an identification card as a cabaret employee, and for an order declaring void a regulation of the Police Commissioner which prohibits character reading, clairvoyance and fortunetelling in cabarets.

Concededly, each of the petitioners has been employed in different cabarets in the city of New York; each has received an identification card under a regulation of the Police Commissioner of the City of New York which prohibits…