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"Woman can sue Marshall over ban on dancing"

"Woman can sue Marshall over ban on dancing": Yesterday's edition of The Ashville (N.C.) Citizen-Times contained an article that begins, "A Madison County woman banned seven years ago from a Marshall dance hall on allegations that her gyrations were sexually suggestive has won the right to take her lawsuit against the town to trial. A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., issued a ruling Wednesday overturning the 2003 dismissal of Rebecca Willis' lawsuit. The decision means the case can proceed to trial on the question of whether the town violated her constitutional right to equal protection under the 14th Amendment by singling her out and banning her for life from the town’s public music arena, said her attorney, Jon Sasser, of Raleigh." The article also features a photograph of the plaintiff.

My earlier coverage of Wednesday's Fourth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 02, 2008 (boomark / email).