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BLACKMAN v. GOODMAN

Nos. C-C-77-346, C-C-78-069.

457 F.Supp. 391 (1978)

Robert James BLACKMAN, Plaintiff, v. J. C. GOODMAN, Jr., John M. Belk, and the Members of the City Council of Charlotte, North Carolina, Defendants. JERRY W. HONEYCUTT, INC., d/b/a American Health Clinic, G. H. K. Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Checkmate Health Club, Robert James Blackman, d/b/a Par-A-Dice Health Clinic, and all other persons, firms and corporations similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Peter A. FOLEY, Chairman, Elisabeth G. Hair, William H. Booe, Robert L. Walton and Edwin B. Peacock, members of Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, B. L. Porter, Chief of Police of the Mecklenburg County Police Department, P. E. Bartlett, Lieutenant and head of the Criminal Division of the Mecklenburg County Police Department, and Peter S. Gilchrist, III, District Attorney for the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District of the State of North Carolina, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

September 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Daly, Jr., and Durant W. Escott, Casey, Daly & Bennett, P. A., Charlotte, N. C., for Robert James Blackman.

W. A. Watts, Deputy City Atty., Charlotte, N. C., for J. C. Goodman et al.

Gary A. Davis, Charlotte, N. C., for Jerry W. Honeycutt, Inc., et al.

James O. Cobb, Charlotte, N. C., for Peter A. Foley et al.

ORDER

McMILLAN, District Judge.

These two cases challenge the constitutionality of virtually identical local ordinances, one enacted by the City of Charlotte (C-C-77-346), and the other enacted by Mecklenburg County (C-C-78-069). The challenged provisions of the ordinances prohibit a "massage business" from permitting a "massage or treatment to be given by a person to a person of the opposite sex," and prohibit...

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