2 AM Shutdown Allowed

The Fifth Circuit reversed the district court and allowed the City of Dallas’s ordinance requiring sexually oriented businesses to shut down by 2 AM, summarizing: “”Under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, the Ordinance is likely constitutional. The City’s evidence reasonably showed a link between SOBs’ late-night operations and an increase in “noxious side effects,” such as crime. The Ordinance also left the SOBs ample opportunity to purvey their speech at other times of the day and night.” Assoc. of Club Executives v. City of Dallas, No. 22-10556 (Oct. 12, 2023).