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BOUNDARY · INDIANAPOLIS, MARION COUNTY · 864 N.E.2d 372 (2007)
Indiana has one reported club case, and it is Indianapolis's. Broadhacker v. City of Indianapolis, 864 N.E.2d 372 (Ind. Ct. App. 17 April 2007), No. 49A02-0511-CV-1084, is carried here at boundary size and marked as the state's, not this ground's. The facts as the court took them: Frank and Ann Broadhacker started Reel One as a private adults-only social club in 1992, were told by a city representative that the property was correctly zoned for a private social club and that no permits or licences were required, and incorporated Reel One as a not-for-profit in 1994; its membership agreement states that Reel One "is a private club for members only. This club is not open to the public, nor shall the general public be allowed to use the premises." The city later sued to enjoin Reel One and fine the Broadhackers under the city's revised code, §391-601, which declares a business where persons pay to view or participate in "live sex and violent acts" a public nuisance per se, and §391-603, which makes it unlawful to own or operate such a business — an ordinance that did not exist when the club started in 1992 — and also accused the Broadhackers of maintaining a hotel without a licence. The Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment the city had won on four counts: there was a genuine issue of material fact whether Reel One is a private club and therefore not subject to the nuisance ordinance. The court noted Reel One had no signage advertising its nature, did not advertise in local newspapers or other local media, and did not invite the general public inside; the city offered no evidence its officers or any other person had ever entered without membership or a membership card; and it declined the city's invitation to hold that a club cannot be private as a matter of law merely because its members do not own it, receive financial reports, set charges, or adopt bylaws. The case went back for that fact to be tried. For the neighbouring-variant discipline, that is the whole entry: the state's one reported club case, an Indianapolis nuisance-ordinance case about a members-only door, carried at its own size, outside the line. The press of record itemised alongside it: the Tribune and the county's own record carry no equivalent for this ground, and the federal case law of the Seventh Circuit that touches the category in Indiana — BBL, Inc. v. City of Angola, No. 14-1199 (7th Cir. 2015), an adult-entertainment zoning fight in Steuben County — is likewise a strip-club case, not a club case, and likewise outside the line. As of the current public record, Reel One still trades in Indianapolis under its own name, and a 2026 lifestyle directory's Indiana list names clubs in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Bloomington and Muncie — and none in Granger, Mishawaka or South Bend.
Sources: Broadhacker v. City of Indianapolis, 864 N.E.2d 372 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007), full opinion (Justia), read November 2026: facts, ordinance (§§ 391-601, 391-602, 391-603), holding and remand. BBL, Inc. v. City of Angola, No. 14-1199 (7th Cir. 7 Dec. 2015) (Justia). 2026 lifestyle-club directory, Indiana list, read November 2026: Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Bloomington, Muncie — no Michiana entry.