Casa DiMario, Inc. v. Richardson

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

The legality of a municipal ban on nude barroom dancing returns to our table in this case. Last term, in El Marocco Club, Inc. v. Richardson, 746 A.2d 1228 (R.I. 2000), we grappled with several of the same issues raised by these consolidated appeals. There, we held that the General Assembly had authorized the defendant Town of Johnston (town) to enact the identical anti-nudity ordinances — namely, town ordinances Nos. 965 and 1057 — that are challenged here. Id. at 1231-33. In El Marocco, we ruled that, under applicable state law, the town was within its authority…