{"id":1468904,"date":"2022-05-09T13:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468904"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:14:39","slug":"two-women-barred-from-strip-joint-seek-ruling-from-florida-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-women-barred-from-strip-joint-seek-ruling-from-florida-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Women Barred From Strip Joint Seek Ruling From Florida Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-women-barred-from-strip-joint-seek-ruling-from-florida-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-57159219-e1652114982587.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>Two women who were turned away at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a> strip joint because they weren\u2019t accompanied by a man are taking their case to the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>The women, Brittney Smith and Anita Yanes, claim they couldn\u2019t get through the door at Rachel\u2019s Orlando in 2018. They say they went to see a dancer they\u2019d heard looked like Yanes, but were denied entry due to a club rule they say violated their civil rights.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cWe do believe that this issue is so important,\u201d their attorney, Matthew Dietz, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/women-denied-entry-at-florida-strip-club-will-take-case-to-state-supreme-court-again\/ar-AAX3qBv\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re living in a time when these rights are being constricted.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Florida?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Florida<\/a> women who were denied entry to a strip club because they didn&#8217;t have a man with them say they will take their case to the FL Supreme Court \u2014 again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OSHYBle9T4\">https:\/\/t.co\/OSHYBle9T4<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martinecomas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@martinecomas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Pittman (@craigtimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/craigtimes\/status\/1523679595169402880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dropcap-parent\" data-t=\"{\" n>The legal question, according to Dietz, is whether local governments can\u00a0enact anti-discrimination ordinances that supersede the Florida Civil Rights Act. The Orange County human rights ordinance goes farther than the state law, and would have nixed the club rule. But the state\u2019s\u00a0Fifth District Court of Appeal on Friday refused to rehear the case following its ruling last March that local law was unconstitutional because it is preempted by the state law.<\/p>\n<p id=\"continueReadBreak\" data-t=\"{\" n>Dietz believes the state Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case in 2020, will take it this time because the appeals judge acknowledged that that the issue of whether local governments are allowed to enact ordinances that go beyond state law is \u201cone of great public importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cThe case is going to move forward, and the Florida Supreme Court is going to decide whether the Florida Civil Rights Act preempts local anti-discrimination ordinances,\u201d Dietz said. \u201cFor the past 50 years, counties and municipalities in Florida have been passing anti-discrimination ordinances that protect the citizens in their counties and cities. \u2026 Until today, those ordinances have been valid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>Rachel\u2019s claims the policy is in place to deter prostitution and prevent domestic incidents. The encounter between Smith and Yanes and the club manager was caught on video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cIt\u2019s club rules. It\u2019s club policy. That\u2019s all,\u201d the manager told the women. \u201dWe\u2019ve had wives come in here and try to get their husbands out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>They sued, claiming the policy violated the county ordinance\u2019s protections against gender and sexual orientation discrimination. The state Civil Rights Act bans discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations, but offers no specific protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>The judge in the initial case first sided with Rachel\u2019s, holding that the state law trumped the local ordinance. But the Fifth District Court of Appeal sent the case back to circuit court, saying Orange County should have been made part of the suit. Last year, the lower court judge ruled the two laws did not conflict, which Rachel\u2019s appealed and won when the Fifth Circuit declared the Orange County ordinance\u00a0partially unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{\" n>Ironically, Rachel\u2019s has since changed its policy and allows unaccompanied women to come in and watch strippers perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cSteve Mason, an Altamonte Springs attorney representing Rachel\u2019s, said Orange County overstepped its authority because local governments cannot enact ordinances that conflict with state laws. He said he looks forward to arguing the case before the Supreme Court,\u201d the Sentinel reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cThese people are zealots and they are extremists,\u201d Rachel\u2019s attorney, Steve Mason, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/women-denied-entry-at-florida-strip-club-will-take-case-to-state-supreme-court-again\/ar-AAX3qBv\">Sentinel<\/a>, referring to Orange County lawmakers who passed the broader ordinance. \u201cI cannot wait to go to Tallahassee because I am going to rip into them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two women who were turned away at a Florida strip joint because they weren\u2019t accompanied by a man are taking their case to the state\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1482126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}