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Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 05-1131 DERRICK BARRY, individually and d/b/a Tom Catz, a sole proprietorship, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus SUMTER COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of South Carolina, Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Cameron McGowan Currie, District Judge. (CA-03-2612-3) Submitted: August 24, 2005 Decided: September 22, 2005 Before LUTTIG, TRAXLER,
Summary: UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 05-1131 DERRICK BARRY, individually and d/b/a Tom Catz, a sole proprietorship, Plaintiff - Appellant, versus SUMTER COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of South Carolina, Defendant - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, at Columbia. Cameron McGowan Currie, District Judge. (CA-03-2612-3) Submitted: August 24, 2005 Decided: September 22, 2005 Before LUTTIG, TRAXLER, a..
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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
No. 05-1131
DERRICK BARRY, individually and d/b/a Tom
Catz, a sole proprietorship,
Plaintiff - Appellant,
versus
SUMTER COUNTY, a political subdivision of the
State of South Carolina,
Defendant - Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina, at Columbia. Cameron McGowan Currie, District
Judge. (CA-03-2612-3)
Submitted: August 24, 2005 Decided: September 22, 2005
Before LUTTIG, TRAXLER, and KING, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
Suzanne E. Coe, Greenville, South Carolina, for Appellant. William
H. Davidson, II, Kenneth P. Woodington, DAVIDSON, MORRISON AND
LINDEMANN, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
See Local Rule 36(c).
PER CURIAM:
Derrick Barry claimed the Sumter County, South Carolina,
zoning ordinances governing adult entertainment establishments
constituted an impermissible prior restraint on First Amendment
rights. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error.
Barry claims the district court erred when it granted the
County’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed his case because
he lacked standing. This court reviews de novo a district court’s
order granting summary judgment. Price v. Thompson,
380 F.3d 209,
212 (4th Cir. 2004).
Barry claims that the district court erred when it ruled
that he did not apply for an adult use business license. Barry
first applied for a license to operate a business of private exotic
entertainers, but when the County attempted to categorize his
application as one for an adult use business, Barry protested that
his operations would not involve nudity. Barry attempted to avoid
the adult use classification by instead applying for a license to
operate as a nightclub, but the county rejected his application.
Throughout the application process Barry took every measure to
avoid the adult use characterization and cannot now claim that he
applied for an adult use permit. The district court did not err in
finding that Barry did not apply for an adult use license.
In order to satisfy Article III’s case or controversy
requirement, a litigant in federal court is required to establish
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its own injury in fact, that there is a causal connection between
the injury and the challenged conduct, and that it is likely that
the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision. See Lujan v.
Defenders of Wildlife,
504 U.S. 555, 560 (1992). Typically a
plaintiff may only invoke its own constitutional rights and may not
claim rights of others not before the court. See Laird v. Tatum,
408 U.S. 1, 14 n.7 (1972). However, a litigant “has standing to
challenge a statute on the ground that it delegates overly broad
licensing discretion to an administrative office, whether or not
his conduct could be proscribed by a properly drawn statute, and
whether or not he applied for a license.” Freedman v. Maryland,
380 U.S. 51, 56 (1965).
In his complaint, Barry challenged zoning ordinances
governing adult entertainment establishments. He had the ability
to challenge those ordinances even though he did not apply for an
adult use license. Freedman, 380 U.S. at 56. However, to have
standing to satisfy the case or controversy requirement, Barry must
still have met the requirement of an injury in fact. Secretary of
State of Maryland v. Joseph H. Munson Co.,
467 U.S. 947, 958
(1984); see also Phelps v. Hamilton,
122 F.3d 885 (10th Cir. 1997)
(stating that a plaintiff bringing a First Amendment facial
challenge to a statute must still satisfy the injury in fact
requirement in order to demonstrate standing). As Barry did not
intend to operate an adult use business, he did not show any injury
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in fact from the adult use provisions he sought to challenge. The
district court thus did not err in dismissing Barry’s complaint for
lack of standing.
Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order
granting the County’s motion for summary judgment. We dispense
with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are
adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument
would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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