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California v. LaRue  

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  • The Supreme Court held in California v. LaRue , 409 U.S.109 (1972), that given the states’ broad authority to regulate alcoholic beverages under the Twenty-first Amendment, California provisions regulating explicitly sexual live entertainment and films presented in establishments licensed to sell liquor did not, on their face, violate the First or Fourteenth Amendments. In a later case, Peek-a-Boo Lounge of Bradenton, Inc. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; California v. LaRue (1972)]

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  • 1972

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/California_v._LaRue

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