The city of San Bernardino owes a strip club $1.4 million for losses the venue suffered when officials tried to shut it down.
According to a report on CBS 2 News, a three-judge panel for the 4th District Court of Appeals in Riverside has affirmed a jury's decision to award the damages to the Flesh Club, an all-nude venue. City officials ordered the club to stop showing nude dancers from 1995 to 1999.
CBS 2 also reported that the club owner's attorney, Roger Jon Diamond, said the city is also liable for interest on the verdict, as well as attorney's fees and interest on the attorney's fees.
Diamond called the verdict "a major victory" for everybody, since it shows that state immunity laws are trumped by the federal civil-rights act.
The appellate court already had upheld a trial court's ruling that the zoning ordinance the city used to prohibit nude dancing at the club from 1995 to 1999 was unconstitutional.
According to the report, the city had originally argued that it was immune from paying for the club's lost profits.
