Officials in Fort Collins have decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.
Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.In February, when it was cold enough that few would want to go topless in the community north of Denver, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge's conclusion that the law amounted to unconstitutional discrimination.
Fort Collins decided this month not to appeal the decision, having spent more than $300,000 defending the law. And now the city has formally removed the law from its public nudity statutes. The prohibition on public exposure of breasts by women and girls over 10 years old is now gone from the city code as of this week.
Most other courts have rejected equal-protection challenges to bans on female toplessness, as the Tenth Circuit acknowledged in its February ruling, saying"ours is the minority viewpoint."
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