Court Opinion

ID: 9747089
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:56:23.152728+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:19.968176
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WOODS (Fred), J., Concurring.
I am persuaded by the reasoning contained in the opinion that the Los Angeles County CUP ordinance suffers *1011from constitutional “vagueness,” infirmities which are beyond our province to cure. By joining with my colleagues to reverse the judgment and remand to the trial court for issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate I would accentuate two points:
1. I am just as convinced as my colleagues that Los Angeles County government can amend its laws to constitutionally employ land-use regulation as a means of determining the appropriate location of adult businesses in the county; and
2. In doing so, the comment of Chief Justice Rehnquist in the plurality opinion in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (1991) 501 U.S. 560 [115 L.Ed. 504, 511, 111 S.Ct. 2456], that, nude dancing ... is expressive conduct within the outer perimeters of the First Amendment” be carefully weighed and considered.
Respondents’ petition for review by the Supreme Court was denied July 21, 1994.