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11-27-2019, 11:44 AM
WESH 2 Orlando
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Two women have filed a lawsuit claiming they were denied entry into a Central Florida strip club because they weren’t with a man.
One of the two women who filed the lawsuit says she was a regular at Rachel’s Adult Entertainment on South Orange Avenue but in her previous visits she’d always been with a man.
A lawyer for the two women provided WESH 2 News with video they filmed as they were being turned away.
“We don’t let people in by themselves because you come here looking for your husbands, your boyfriends. We don’t want a domestic situation,” someone in the video can be heard saying.
The lawsuit claims staff at Rachel's told the women they couldn't come in without a man because they might take a man's attention away from the strippers, they might be looking for their husbands and cause drama. According to the lawsuit, the staff also said women were not allowed in without a man to prevent prostitution.
The women's lawyer says the reasons provided, especially the one about prostitution, violate the women's human rights.
The women sued Rachel's for discrimination under Orange County's human rights ordinance but, in May, a judge dismissed the suit, saying the county's rule ispreempted by the state's Civil Rights Act.
The women are now appealing the dismissal,and the issue has become a constitutional question of local government's authority. Cities, including Delray Beach and Miami Beach, are filing briefs supporting the lawsuit.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Two women have filed a lawsuit claiming they were denied entry into a Central Florida strip club because they weren’t with a man.
One of the two women who filed the lawsuit says she was a regular at Rachel’s Adult Entertainment on South Orange Avenue but in her previous visits she’d always been with a man.
A lawyer for the two women provided WESH 2 News with video they filmed as they were being turned away.
“We don’t let people in by themselves because you come here looking for your husbands, your boyfriends. We don’t want a domestic situation,” someone in the video can be heard saying.
The lawsuit claims staff at Rachel's told the women they couldn't come in without a man because they might take a man's attention away from the strippers, they might be looking for their husbands and cause drama. According to the lawsuit, the staff also said women were not allowed in without a man to prevent prostitution.
The women's lawyer says the reasons provided, especially the one about prostitution, violate the women's human rights.
The women sued Rachel's for discrimination under Orange County's human rights ordinance but, in May, a judge dismissed the suit, saying the county's rule ispreempted by the state's Civil Rights Act.
The women are now appealing the dismissal,and the issue has become a constitutional question of local government's authority. Cities, including Delray Beach and Miami Beach, are filing briefs supporting the lawsuit.