Dallas Settles Exxxotica Porn Convention Lawsuit for $650,000
Dallas ended up paying dearly for banning porn conventions from the city in 2016. On Wednesday, the City Council signed off on paying J. Handy $650,000 to settle the suit he brought against the city in February 2016.
Handy, founder of the Exxxotica pornography and adult industry expo, sued the city in 2016 when the council refused to host his convention after a successful and largely uneventful three-day run at Dallas' Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in 2015.
U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater dismissed the case in 2017. In his decision, he said the plaintiff in the suit, Three Expo Events, lacked standing because it doesn't have the same name as Exotica Dallas, the company that initially contracted with the city to put on the event at the convention center. Fitzwater did not rule on the suit's underlying First Amendment issues or the city's claim that it has a business case to regulate who uses the convention center.
Three Expo's attorneys filed an appeal with the 5th Circuit, claiming that Three Expo and Exotica Dallas are affiliated companies, both interested in correcting the harm that's come to them as a result of Dallas' ban.
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