3) The judge has made a judicial error by allowing the Plaintiff 's counsel to comment on the case about Minichiello 's boss being a German with an "attitude of hatred" and made forced analogies to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The judge also allowed irrelevant testimony, which asserted that the Club discriminated against Latinos, Jews, and African-Americans, to the issue of discrimination based on sexual orientation. I agree that awarding $20,000,000 was grossly excessive and has no rational basis, and was an error by the judge as well.
7) The police would violate a suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure by secretly placing a GPS tracking device on the suspect’s car for an extended time without first securing a warrant to do so. They have violated his “reasonable degree of privacy”. Without having a warrant issued will give the ability to have anybody monitored whenever for whatever period of time invading privacy.
8a) Pap’s challenged the City ordinance banning nude dancing and that they had violated their freedom of expression because it was said to cause an “erotic message of nudity”.
The City Council members were against the city 's "lewd and immoral" nude dance clubs. In an effort to promote pureness and principles and to combat nude dancing 's harmful effects in the city, the council members passed an ordinance making it a summary offense to appear nude in public. As a result, the City 's erotic dancers would have to “wear at least a g-strings and pasties when entertaining”.
b) Pap’s A.M. lost the case due to the “ordinance which failed the narrow tailoring requirements of strict scrutiny”. With that being said, they violated Pap’s First Amendment rights which should have prohibited the government from shutting down adult entertainment simply because they disliked it. This case brings the logic and implications surrounding the opinions of those with authority and concludes that the
References: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-1161.ZS.html