Adult dorm voyeur

Docket No. This appeal arises from Voyeur Dorm L. Because we conclude the district court misapplied Tampa's City Code because it erroneously found that Voyeur Dorm offered adult entertainment to the public at the residence in question, we reverse the judgment of the district court. As alleged in its complaint, Voyeur Dorm is a Florida limited liability company that maintains offices and conducts its business in Hillsborough County, Florida. Voyeur Dorm operates an internet based web site that provides a 24 hour a day internet transmission portraying the lives of the residents of West Farwell Drive, Tampa, Florida. Throughout its existence, Voyeur Dorm has employed 25 to 30 different women, most of whom entered into a contract that specifies, among other things, that they are "employees," on a "stage and filming location," with "no reasonable expectation of privacy," for "entertainment purposes.

Voyeur Dorm, L. City of Tampa, F. A lot of people were willing to pay Voyeur Dorm, L. As might be expected, the City of Tampa had a problem with this. A Tampa City Code provision prohibits "adult entertainment establishments" in residential neighborhoods. As far as the City was concerned, the house in which Voyeur Dorm's women resided was just such an establishment, because some of their daily activities were performed sans clothing.

Designer Skin LLC v. Plaintiffs operate the Voyeurdorm. Reversing the decision of the District Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that plaintiffs' operation of this web site does not constitute a violation of the Tampa City Code, which prohibits the operation of an adult entertainment establishment in the residential neighborhood in which the house at which plaintiffs' filming activities took place is located. Plaintiff Voyeur Dorm, L. At this site subscribers, for a fee, can view over the Internet the activities of five women in a house located in a residential section of Tampa, Florida.

Voyeur Dorm, L. City of Tampa, Fla. The women who were employed by Voyeur Dorm signed contracts which stated that they were employees on a "stage and filming location.