Legal Opinion
America's Best Family Show-Place Corp. v. City of New York, Dept. of Buildings
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 3, 1982No. 81 Civ. 4087PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.
Plaintiff, America’s Best Family Showplace Corp., brings this action to challenge the constitutionality of various New York City zoning and licensing laws that regulate coin operated video games.
Plaintiff succeeds the operator of a defunct restaurant on Woodhaven Boulevard in Queens. It now seeks to reopen the restaurant, but with a new twist: it wants to install forty dining tables in which are embedded coin operated video game machines. According to the plaintiff, the addition of these games will insure success, while their absence will almost…
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