Opinion ID: 1152999
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Closing Hour Provision

Text: Although the closing hour provision [10] limits expression during certain hours, we find it is constitutionally valid under O'Brien. The City acted within its constitutional power to protect the health and welfare of its citizens by requiring adult cabarets to close from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. The requirement advances the substantial governmental interest of preventing the flow of patrons from bars, which close at 2 a.m., to adult cabarets. This interest is unrelated to the erotic message conveyed by dancers and the restrictions on First Amendment freedoms is no greater than essential to the furtherance of the city's interest since adult cabarets may operate 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. See Mitchell v. Commission on Adult Entertainment Establishments, 10 F.3d 123, 139 (3d Cir.1993) (upholding a statute establishing closing hours for adult entertainment establishments). E.