That's one point for our side: a federal judge has ordered this Cleveland suburb to pony up the legal costs of its unsuccessful bid to stop the Post Time Adult Video Arcade from opening.
Cleveland area adult businesses have been challenged heavily in recent weeks, including in Brook Park, Brunswick, North Olmsted, Painesville Township and other communities.
But last week, U.S. District Judge David Dowd ordered Northfield to let Post Time open. Northfield Mayor Victor Milani said April 27 he expected the village council to ask him to appeal.
He also said he's looking into whether Northfield can buy the building where Post Time opened, even though it might carry a $200,000 price tag. "(B)ut the residents might want to go that way," he told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "In polling council, it seems that the majority wants to continue to fight the porn store."
It's a battle that's been waged since 1997, when Post Time first began trying to open along state Route 8, the paper said, when Northfield passed a law which all but banned adult businesses in the single-square-mile village.
