The right to bare arms

Three erotic dancers brought a First Amendment challenge to a Louisiana law that imposed a 21-year age minimum on that line of work. As to overbreadth (i.e., the coverage of the law), the Fifth Circuit found “no suggestion in this record that the legislature was seeking to affect dancers other than those at establishments in which erotic dancing was the norm, or . . . specifically intended to cover those at traditional theater and ballet.” As to vagueness, the Court observed that the dancers “want to wear the bare minimum, but the Constitution does not guarantee them that level of specificity.” Doe v. Landry, No. 17-30292 (Nov. 16, 2018, on rehearing) (emphasis added).