MIAMI - After Miami's Code Enforcement Board found Flava Works guilty of running an adult business in a residential zone and ordering the studio to halt operations of its Internet site, CocoDorm.com , the company's head, Phillip Bleicher, has turned around and sued the city.
Flava Works' attorney, James Benjamin, breaks it down like this: "The bottom line is that somebody sent around these packets of info anonymously about CocoDorm, sent them to news media in south Florida and to people in the neighborhood. They put all this stuff in about the website and associated the site with the address of the house."
He points out that something similar happened in Tampa with VoyeurDorm.com and the 11th circuit court of appeals judged that because the public didn't go to the house to get sex, no adult entertainment was happening there.
The city filed a lawsuit which was never served to Flava Works, so CocoDorm is still operating, because nothing illegal is happening.
Bleicher, told GAYVN.com, "This whole incident was caused by a jealous competitor spreading malicious lies and rumors. This competitor sent out defamatory [propaganda] to the neighbors and Miami media hoping they would revolt against the CocoDorm being in their neighborhood. When this did not happen, they mailed the same packet to local news channels, where only one picked up the story to run during sweeps week.
"We are going to pursue this case against the city and fight for our first amendment rights."
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