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- From: Mark.Cornick@launchpad.unc.edu (Mark Cornick)
- Subject: Beachfront USA Lawsuit
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.061803.22975@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:18:03 GMT
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- the following message comes from robbanks@delphi.com:
-
- Beachfront USA has asked me to help them in distributing the following
- press release via the electronic bulletin boards. It is being posted on
- Delphi,
- Genie, and Prodigy. Anyone with links to nudist boards on other services is
- invited to download and post on as many boards as possible. Reprinting in
- club
- newsletters is encouraged.
-
- BEACHFRONT U.S.A
- Post Office Box 328
- Moreno Valley, Ca. 92556
-
- Press Release
-
- 15 November 1992 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- NUDISTS ARE NOT DANCING GIRLS
-
- Beachfront U.S.A. Will Appeal Ninth
- Circuit Decision to Supreme Court
- file an appeal with the United States Supreme Court.
- In refusing Beachfront's attempt to secure an injunction against the City
- of Los Angeles 1974 anti-nudity ordinance, the Ninth Circuit simply
- invoked last
- year's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Barnes vs. Glen Theater, saying it was
- "fatal" to the Beachfront lawsuit.
- "The three justices did not respond to our arguments based on the First,
- Fourth Fifth and Ninth Amendments," said Beachfront President Bob Campbell of
- Long Beach. "They simply reached up and invoked "Barnes", which has to do
- with
- dancing girls. But nudists are not dancing girls. They are members of old,
- established local, regional, national and international organizations, with
- hundreds of thousands of members world-wide, which promulgate a serious
- philosophy of natural wholesomeness far removed from sleazy barroom ambiances.
- In relying on Barnes, the Ninth Circuit fails to make that distinction."
- Barnes was a test of the state of Indiana's right to control nude
- dancing.
- In a 5-4 decision which elicited 4 written opinions (3 by the majority), the
- Supreme Court said that Indiana's nude dancers must wear "pasties and a
- g-string." This was the case in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, author
- of the majority opinion, expressed the view that public nudity was "the evil
- which the state seeks to prevent"--a remark which dismayed and outraged
- nudists.
- Beachfront U.S.A's attempt to destroy the L.A. ordinance failed in
- 1975 in
- a California state appellate court, and the organization (formed in 1973) went
- belly-up in 1979. But Beachfront re-organized in 1986, this time with the
- backing of the Western Sunbathing Association and numerous individial
- contributors to the activist organization's war-chest.
- In 1990 Beachfront filed papers in federal district court in Los Angeles.
- Its attempt at an injunction was denied by Judge Ronald Lew. Beachfront
- promptly appealed to the Ninth Circuit. But the nudist organization is
- unhappy,
- not only with the ruling, a 3-0 decision upholding the district court, but
- with
- the way the Ninth Circuit handled its appeal.
-
- FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL:
-
- Stanley Raskin, Esq. BFUSA Attorney (310) 540-1771
- Robert Campbell BFUSA President (310) 424-0354
- Cec Cinder BFUSA Legal Chair (909) 684-2532
- --
- The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
-