Gyant Unplugged

The Atlanta nightlife was just doled a huge blow.

Just days after it was revealed that ATL strip club’s toppled over 240 million dollars last year in a story by reported by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, the same newspaper is reporting that a federal appeals court has presented ample evidence to justify an ordinance banning the sale, possession and consumption of alcohol at adult entertainment establishments.

Per the AJC:

The ordinance, passed in 2001, was challenged by strip club owners in a federal lawsuit that contended the law infringed on their free speech rights. A federal judge agreed, striking down the ordinance as unconstitutional.

But on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal unanimously reversed that decision.

The county relied on “ample statistical, surveillance and anecdotal evidence” as well as testimony and studies to support its efforts to curb the negative secondary effects of alcohol and live nude dancing in the community, Judge Stanley Marcus wrote.

While the evidence has its limitations, Marcus said, “it certainly creates a vivid image of a county in which strip clubs that served alcohol played a prominent and unwelcome role. Sex and drug crimes occurred in and around the clubs and the neighborhood’s cheap hotels, and required law enforcement and the judiciary (the juvenile court, at least) to invest resources in combating the secondary effects.”

The 11th Circuit sent the case back to a federal judge, instructing him to rule on other challenges raised by the clubs in their lawsuit.

Personally I find this decision to be a little suspicious to ignore. Especially when you add the fact that it was just revealed that clubs like Magic City, Body Tap, Club Onyx and more all contributed to an industry that almost tripled its revenue more than the city’s three major sports teams combined.

Could this simply be a bunch of older fair-haired gentleman  hatin’ on the fact that some of us like to watch some cakes and bobbies bouncing in our faces? To bad the Urban community can’t get organized enough to fight like hell to ensure politics stay’s outside of the titty bar. Lets all hope our new mayor Kasim Reed can step in and fight for the little guy on this one.

KASIM DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!

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