Legal Opinion
O'MALLEY v. City of Syracuse
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided February 11, 1993No. 5:93-cv-00089PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER
MUNSON, Senior District Judge.
This highly publicized dispute needs little in the way of introduction. On the surface, at issue is plaintiffs’ desire to operate within the City of Syracuse a club that features nude and topless dancers. Upon stripping away the layers, however, one is exposed to a controversy that is hardly skin deep. The court is faced with two conflicting interests which through the years have helped to develop the body of our constitutional jurisprudence.
On the one hand is a community’s well-established interests in protecting order and morality,…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- United States v. O'BrienSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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- Members of the City Council of Los Angeles v. Taxpayers for VincentSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- In Re Horizon Air, Inc.District Court, N.D. New York · 1993
- Steverson v. City of Vicksburg, Miss.District Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1994
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