Friday came and passed without a settlement between Lubbock County and Bobby Cannon as called for by a federal judge earlier this week.
“It’s safe to say we didn’t reach a settlement,” Cannon said. “We told them what we’d settle for and we never heard anything.”
Cannon says that his lawyer, John Fahle, told him to expect as much. “We’re looking for to going into court. The county tried to have the case dismissed but the judge thought we had a very viable case.”
According to Cannon, the reason why judge called for a settlement was the he was a conservative type that preferred not to have hear a case about a sexually oriented business.
Cannon and his financial backers filed a federal suit in March against Lubbock County and county officials for denying a permit to build a strip club in Lubbock.
The county changed their zoning laws three times during one month in response to Cannon’s attempt to build the Bare Elegant Show Club (B.E.S.C), intended to be a strip club.
Cannon's problems began last December, when ten days after requesting a business permit for B.E.S.C., a trailer showed up on the adjacent property. The county declared the trailer a dwelling, and denied the permit on the basis of the planned club's proximity to a dwelling.
Cannon is currently scouting for a location in Austin to open a strip club.
