Baby Dolls Topless Saloons, Inc. v. City of Dallas

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

Primarily at issue is whether the City of Dallas violated certain establishments’ First Amendment rights when it amended its City Code to effectively require female performers to wear bikini tops, among other things, in order for those establishments to avoid being classified as sexually oriented business (SOBs), subject, inter alia, to zoning restrictions. Plaintiff and Intervenors (Plaintiffs), operators of those establishments, contend: the City is collaterally estopped from litigating the constitutionality of the amendment in the light of a similar…