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Related: About this forumTexas Judge's Order Upholding 'Bikini Tops For Strippers' Law Is Completely Hilarious
Huffington Post 4/30/13
Texas Judge's Order Upholding 'Bikini Tops For Strippers' Law Is Completely Hilarious
This is one of the funniest, most eloquent court documents we've ever seen.
In allowing the city of San Antonio, Texas, to enforce an order that strippers wear bikini tops instead of nipple-covering "pasties," U.S. District Judge Fred Biery noted that the issue had once again "fallen into the court's lap."
Biery's opinion, titled "The Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Bikini Top Vs. The (More) Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Pastie," said his job was to answer "the age old question, now with constitutional implications: 'Does size matter?'"
Although Biery ruled that San Antonio's strip clubs did not prove their need for an injunction to block a 2012 law requiring exotic dancers to cover their breasts "from the top of the areola" down, he also cast doubt on the city's claim that such regulations would cut down on violent crime, drug dealing and prostitution:
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Texas Judge's Order Upholding 'Bikini Tops For Strippers' Law Is Completely Hilarious (Original Post)
sonias
Apr 2013
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Gman
(24,780 posts)1. Back before he was a federal judge`
Fred Biery was a great Democrat and a leader in the party before he became a federal judge. He is also a great guy. He was appointed by Bill Clinton to the bench. If you have a good liberal issue to litigate, you want to get it into his court or Orlando Garcia's court. Both were great Democrats. Of course neither is active in the party any longer nor have they been for many years now due to their status as federal judges.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)2. The judge is one heck of a comedy writer.
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)3. link to the opinion
http://www.woai.com/media/lib/12/5/9/5/59511ba8-415b-4b2e-a783-cc15b6c19cc0/Itsy_Bitsy_Teeny_Weeny_Bikini_Top_Order.pdf
omfg....I'm only on the 2nd page & I'm in tears......
omfg....I'm only on the 2nd page & I'm in tears......
sonias
(18,063 posts)4. Thanks DG!