Is a public place of entertainment an appropriate sphere for the exercise of police power?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Estevanovich v. City of Riverside, 69 Cal.App.4th 544, 81 Cal.Rptr.2d 684 (Cal. App. 1999):
There is a broad authority to regulate and "[p]ublic places of amusement and entertainment furnish an appropriate sphere for the exercise of this police power, ..." (7978 Corporation v. Pitchess (1974) 41 Cal.App.3d 42, 46, 115 Cal.Rptr. 746.)
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