This was going to go in ridiculous news, cause it is, but ....
The town of Windsor Locks, Conn. — population 12,000 — doesn’t seem a Vegas-like magnet of bawdy behavior. For those looking for something to do, there’s the New England Air Museum and the Connecticut Fallen Firefighters Memorial. Even the nearby airport — Bradley International — isn’t that memorable.
But from 2007 to 2010, a hotel in Windsor Locks was allegedly the center of quite a swinging scene of … swingers, actually. The town’s Beverly Hills Suites, according to court documents, hosted loud, lurid, alcohol-fueled affairs featuring public sex, fights and, once, a hip-hop concert by renowned performer Ludacris. And now, after a long legal battle, a federal court ruled last week the sex parties are not protected by the Constitution.
“The First Amendment claims fail because the swingers’ activity documented in the record — namely, participating in sexual encounters with others in the hotel’s bar — is not protected by the First Amendment,” Judge Michael P. Shea of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut ruled.
Shea ruled on a complaint brought against Windsor Locks by Sharok Jacobi, the owner of the now-defunct Beverly Hills Suites, in 2012. Jacobi alleged the town’s police “targeted them for enforcement activities based on animus against the plaintiffs’ customers and entertainers — young, African American and Hispanic people — and members of the swingers’ groups who congregated for parties.”
Read more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/06/swinger-sex-parties-not-protected-by-first-amendment-federal-judge-rules/
