FW: The Supreme Court Today

[Volokh, Eugene]

        One of today's grants.

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> From: john.elwood at bakerbotts.com [SMTP:john.elwood at bakerbotts.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:58 AM
> Subject:      The Supreme Court Today
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> 1.  The Court just can't get enough on the zoning of smut - but then
> again,
> who can?  The Court today granted in 00-799, Los Angeles, CA v. Alameda
> Books, Inc.  The case presents the question whether a zoning ordinance
> that
> prohibits operation of more than one adult entertainment business at a
> single location is invalid because the city did not study the negative
> effects of such combinations of adult businesses, but rather relied on
> judicially approved statutory precedent from other jurisdictions.  (To the
> extent that the Court's own precedents provide an answer - which they
> don't
> necessarily - last Term's Erie v. Pap's AM suggests the answer is "yes."
> The Ninth Circuit, however, said "no.")  This is the Court's third
> smut-zoning case in as many Terms (although in fairness to them, one of
> those was DIGged short of resolution on the merits).
>
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