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• story by Jeffrey Kimmel
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EXPO Coverage: Legal panel, part two
(Note: This story appears in the September 2021 issue of ED Magazine)
Top industry attorneys discussed the legal parameters of rebounding from COVID and the...
Breaking: ROUND 2 OF PPP LOAN APPLICATIONS
story courtesy of Angelina Spencer, Executive Director of ACE National
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Taking your club ‘virtual’? Better know the legal implications!
by attorney Lawrence G. Walters
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Club Onyx opens in Houston, gains restraining order to remain open
story by ACE National Executive Director, Angelina Spencer
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Ohio officers who arrested Stormy Daniels get fired
Following the arrest of Stormy Daniels in 2018, an investigation into the arrest results in firings and suspensions for Ohio police officers.
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“Gig economy” dead in CA, NY, now NJ, too?
Editor's note: The following article explains the Assembly Bill 5 (aka "AB5") legislation in California, which has essentially made entertainers employees in that state....
Important correction to legal “Dynamex” story
In ED Publications' May issue of ED Magazine, we (specifically, ED's legal correspondent Larry Kaplan) interviewed Joe Carouba of BSC Consulting for the article,...
Rhode Island says, “I want my 2 dollars!”
Adult clubs in Rhode Island face a $2 admissions tax on their customers to help fund governmental anti-human trafficking efforts.
State Sen. Elizabeth A. Crowley,...
California dancers are employees—and they don’t like it
by ACE Executive Director Angelina Spencer
As early as October 2018, adult clubs in California quietly converted most dancers to the "employee model" under a...
Fight the power! Georgia clubs battle pole tax
The Georgia Association of Club Executives (GA ACE) sued two state leaders on November 10 of last year, in Fulton County Superior Court, claiming...
FOSTA creates social media nightmare for anything ‘adult’
Though it was signed into law in April 2018, it’s only recently that adult nightclubs and entertainers have begun to see the impact of...
BYO … free speech
A New Jersey gentlemen's club scored a moral and litigious victory when a federal judge ruled in favor of BYOB advertisements as covered by...
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