C'EST BON, INC. v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BD. OF ALCOHOL. CON.

No. 2826.

325 F.Supp. 404 (1971)

C'EST BON, INC., t/a C'est Bon, Inc., Plaintiff, v. NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC CONTROL, and the following persons in their individual capacities and as members of the State Board of Alcoholic Control: W. C. Cohoon, Chairman, Harold M. Edwards, and Lawrence C. Rose, the Mecklenburg County Board of Alcoholic Control, and the following persons in their individual capacities and as members of the Mecklenburg County Board of Alcoholic Control: Jones Y. Pharr, Chairman, Charles E. Knox, and Fred A. Cochrane, J. C. Goodman, as an individual and in his capacity as Chief of Charlotte City Police, Thomas F. Moore, Jr., as an individual and in his capacity as Solicitor of the 14-A Solicitorial District, and Donald W. Stahl, as an individual and as Sheriff of Mecklenburg County, Defendants.

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

March 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael G. Plumides and Adam Stein, Chambers, Stein, Ferguson & Lanning, Charlotte, N. C., for plaintiff.

Christine Y. Denson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N. C., and Charles E. Knox, Charlotte, N. C., for defendants.


RESTRAINING ORDER

McMILLAN, District Judge.

At C'est Bon Club in Charlotte, entertainment by "topless" dancers and waitresses has been the order of the evening for two years. Four 1968 and 1969 prosecutions of various topless dancers were unsuccessful. In 1970-71, abundantly endowed entertainers yclept "Morgana" and "Zaiona" have entertained in the nude before paying drinking audiences. Law enforcement agents of the State Alcoholic Control Board and the...

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