Case Categories: Zoning

• Buehrle v. City of Key West (11th Cir.) (2015)

  Buehrle v. City of Key West (11th Cir. 2015) said a city couldn't ban new tattoo parlors in its historic district without running afoul of the First Amendment...

• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

  City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) said Congress does not have unlimited power to expand First Amendment rights and overturned the Religious Freedom Restoration...

• City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books (2002)

  City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books (2002) ruled that cities could rely on studies showing the crime impact of adult businesses to zone them without violating...

• City of Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc. (1986)

  City of Renton v. Playtime Theaters (1986) said that zoning laws aimed at undesirable secondary effects of sexually oriented businesses may not violate the...

• Schad v. Mount Ephraim (1981)

  Schad v. Mount Ephraim (1981) ruled that a city's zoning laws must conform to the First Amendment and struck down a regulation that banned all live performances...

• Young v. American Mini Theatres (1976)

  In 1976, the Supreme Court introduced the secondary effects doctrine in upholding zoning of adult businesses in Detroit. In Young v. American Mini Theaters, the...