CROWNOVER v. MUSICK

Docket No. L.A. 29917. Sac. Nos. 7904, 7905, 7906.

9 Cal.3d 405 (1973)

509 P.2d 497

107 Cal. Rptr. 681

JUNE CROWNOVER et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. JAMES A. MUSICK, as Sheriff, etc., Defendant and Appellant. CLARENCE REYNOLDS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CITY OF SACRAMENTO, Defendant and Respondent. LEONARD F. GLANCY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, Defendant and Respondent. LEONARD L. GLANCY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. THE MUNICIPAL COURT FOR THE SACRAMENTO JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Defendant and Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest and Respondent. (Consolidated Appeals.)

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 1, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cecil Hicks, District Attorney, Michael R. Capizzi, Assistant District Attorney and Oretta D. Sears, Deputy District Attorney, for Defendant and Appellant.

Peter B. Van Gelder and Ronald F. Sypnicki for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Roger A. Newlander as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants and Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Evelle J. Younger and Thomas C. Lynch, Attorneys General, Doris H. Maier, Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Deputy Attorney General, James P. Jackson, City Attorney, John Liebert, Deputy City Attorney, John B. Heinrich, County Counsel, Robert L. Pleines, Deputy County Counsel, Berrien E. Moore and Kenneth P. Scholtz for Plaintiffs and Respondents, for Defendants and Respondents and for Real Party in Interest and Respondent.

Robert Flandrick, City Attorney (Bell), Martin & Flandrick and Jack L. White as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant, Defendants and Respondents and Real Party in Interest and Respondent.


OPINION

SULLIVAN, J.

In these four cases, consolidated on appeal, we must determine the constitutionality of ordinances of the Counties of Orange and Sacramento and of the City of Sacramento which prohibit the service of food or drink and the providing of entertainment by so-called "topless" women and "bottomless" persons of either sex in any establishment, and also prohibit live acts and exhibitions by such persons in any public...

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