A Miami Beach ordinance imposing record-keeping requirements on the city’s sole strip club—enacted after a 13-year-old trafficking victim performed there—is constitutional, a federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled Monday.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld most of the ordinance, affirming a summary judgment ruling by Judge Federico A. Moreno, who largely handed the city a win in late 2020. The court also agreed with Moreno’s decision to strike down one section of the law on federalism grounds.
Judge Stanley Marcus, writing for the appeals court, acknowledged that the ordinance implicates First Amendment concerns. But because it ...
Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command have arrested three security personnel attached to First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Bauchi, over alleged criminal conspiracy, defamation, giving false...