VIP loses appeal

The Connecticut Supreme Court today rejected VIP’s appeal of the court’s decision to uphold the town of Berlin’s right to zone adult businesses from being less than 250 feet from residential property.

This is the third time Berlin’s SOB ordinance has been upheld in Supreme Court, the first time in a suit brought by the owners of the InfraRed Cafe, the initial ruling in the VIP vs Berlin Zoning and now this one.

VIP has another lawsuit filed in Federal Court, which has been moved several times and I don’t even know for sure when it is scheduled anymore, possibly November. Today’s ruling will make that suit even harder for VIP to win, if not a mute point entirely.

If today’s ruling had been in favor of VIP, it would have been bad news for the town in Federal court. It also would have an impact on every town in Connecticut that has an SOB ordinance.

Read more at the Courant.

Here is a picture of some of the news trucks that show up every time there is anything going on with VIP.