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Cassandra Lynn, the recipient of the messages, transcribed them for the rest of the Rose City T-Girls, who decided not to return to P Bar. The attorneys argued that if the entire case turned on the phone messages, then it was an unconstitutional penalty for speech. Tookey for the court.

Such a defense has been held invalid in public accommodations cases dating back to the s when the federal civil rights laws prohibited places of public accommodation from discriminating on racial grounds. If an owner could justify denying service to a class of people because other people would stop patronizing the business, laws banning public accommodations discrimination would be toothless, at best.

A September 23 story in the Oregonian reported that once the judgment against Penner was finalized, his bank accounts were seized to satisfy the penalty, he laid off five employees, and the Twilight Room Annex — the new name he gave P Club after adverse publicity about this case — closed.

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