From: Mark.Cornick@launchpad.unc.edu (Mark Cornick)
Subject: Beachfront USA Lawsuit
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:18:03 GMT

the following message comes from robbanks@delphi.com:

     Beachfront USA has asked me to help them in distributing the following
press release via the electronic bulletin boards.  It is being posted on
Delphi,
Genie, and Prodigy.  Anyone with links to nudist boards on other services is
invited to download and post on as many boards as possible.  Reprinting in
club
newsletters is encouraged.

                        BEACHFRONT U.S.A
                       Post Office Box 328
                    Moreno Valley, Ca. 92556

                          Press Release

15 November 1992                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                  NUDISTS ARE NOT DANCING GIRLS

               Beachfront U.S.A. Will Appeal Ninth
                Circuit Decision to Supreme Court
file an appeal with the United States Supreme Court.
     In refusing Beachfront's attempt to secure an injunction against the City
of Los Angeles 1974 anti-nudity ordinance, the Ninth Circuit simply
invoked last
year's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Barnes vs. Glen Theater, saying it was
"fatal" to the Beachfront lawsuit.
     "The three justices did not respond to our arguments based on the First,
Fourth Fifth and Ninth Amendments," said Beachfront President Bob Campbell of
Long Beach.  "They simply reached up and invoked "Barnes", which has to do
with
dancing girls.  But nudists are not dancing girls.  They are members of old,
established local, regional, national and international organizations, with
hundreds of thousands of members world-wide, which promulgate a serious
philosophy of natural wholesomeness far removed from sleazy barroom ambiances.
In relying on Barnes, the Ninth Circuit fails to make that distinction."
     Barnes was a test of the state of Indiana's right to control nude
dancing.
In a 5-4 decision which elicited 4 written opinions (3 by the majority), the
Supreme Court said that Indiana's nude dancers must wear "pasties and a
g-string."  This was the case in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, author
of the majority opinion, expressed the view that public nudity was "the evil
which the state seeks to prevent"--a remark which dismayed and outraged
nudists.
     Beachfront U.S.A's attempt to destroy the L.A. ordinance failed in
1975 in
a California state appellate court, and the organization (formed in 1973) went
belly-up in 1979.  But Beachfront re-organized in 1986, this time with the
backing of the Western Sunbathing Association and numerous individial
contributors to the activist organization's war-chest.
     In 1990 Beachfront filed papers in federal district court in Los Angeles.
Its attempt at an injunction was denied by Judge Ronald Lew.  Beachfront
promptly appealed to the Ninth Circuit. But the nudist organization is
unhappy,
not only with the ruling, a 3-0 decision upholding the district court, but
with
the way the Ninth Circuit handled its appeal.

     FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL:

     Stanley Raskin, Esq.         BFUSA Attorney    (310) 540-1771
     Robert Campbell              BFUSA President   (310) 424-0354
     Cec Cinder                   BFUSA Legal Chair (909) 684-2532
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