A Californian city owes big bucks to a strip club after trying to change local zoning laws in an effort to shut it down for good.
The city of San Bernardino owes the all-nude lounge, the Flesh Club, $1.4 million after a court ruled that the zoning ordinance the city used to prohibit nude dancing at the club from 1995 to 1999 was unconstitutional.
The verdict went to appeal, and was upheld. Now, the club's owner's attorney Roger Jon Diamond is telling San Bernardino that in addition to the $1.4 million, the city owes interest on the verdict, as well as attorney's fees and interest on the attorney's fees.
Diamond calls the ruling, "a major victory" for everybody, not just strip clubs, since it shows that "state immunity laws are trumped by the federal civil-rights act."
