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'Stripper Law Blog': Another Nonexistent Blog That Needs an Author

By Bruce Carton

We've got blogs on Furniture Law, Mixed Martial Arts Law, Salmonella Law ... pretty much every niche you can think of. How can there not be a Stripper Law blog? Can someone please step up? If there was a Stripper Law blog, I'd already know everything I need to know about Hart v. Rick's Cabaret Int'l Inc., a newly-certified class action filed in the Southern District of New York. The New York Law Journal reports that the plaintiffs -- as many as 1,700 exotic dancers in New York -- allege that Rick's Cabaret International failed to pay them the minimum wage going as far back as 2004. RCII argued that the dancers were independent contractors, not employees, but Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District rejected that argument. Judge Koeltl found that plaintiffs had adequately alleged that the club had almost complete control over the dancers' activities, "including what music they danced to and the pace and manner of their stripping." The court observed that Rick's dancers are allegedly required to: cover all tattoos while on stage; pay "shift fees" before beginning work; wear heels of a certain height; refrain from gum chewing; schedule their shifts in advance and...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on January 03, 2011 (boomark / email).