Kentucky Restaurant Concepts Inc. v. City of Louisville

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, adult entertainment establishments P.T.’s and Deja Vu and individual owners, operators, and performers employed by those establishments, challenged a Louisville ordinance regulating “adult” businesses and “cabarets” as violative of their First Amendment right to erotic expression. The district court held that the substantive provisions of the ordinance were constitutional but that the licensing fees and procedures and inspection requirements were not. The district court also found that the constitutional provisions could not be severed from the…