Owners of a dozen Jacksonville stores selling sex toys and adult-themed merchandise are asking a federal judge for protection from zoning citations their lawyers call harassment by City Hall.
“Although there has been no change in the substantive law … the city suddenly decided several months ago that plaintiffs are ‘adult bookstores’,” which are subject to tighter zoning restrictions, argues a motion the stores’ lawyers filed seeking an injunction.
Since then, the lawyers argue, “the city has cited and harassed each of the plaintiffs in an effort to force them to close and relocate.”
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