Former NFL wide receiver Laveranues Coles wasn’t always the most cooperative with the media.
But he cares very deeply about the First Amendment.
And bikini bars.
According to Steve Patterson of the Florida Times-Union, Coles has filed a federal lawsuit against a Jacksonville law that restricts the kind of bars like the one he tried to open.
The lawsuit seeks to change the city’s zoning code as it applies to “dancing entertainment establishments.”
Coles filed the suit for his company “Trouble Livin Life LLC,” in hopes of opening a club that would feature dancing that would be “performed before a consensual audience, all over the age of 18 years, who are desirous of receiving and enjoying the message conveyed by the entertainers of normal human sexual interest and sensuality.”
The lawsuit said such expression is not obscene, and that it’s a form of expression protected by the free speech guarantees up there near the top of the Constitution.
Coles admitted when he was cut by the Jets in 2010 that he had other things to do besides football, and his spirit of entrepreneurship and civic concern makes it clear that he was right.
