The record since, in full

2002 —

Silence, kept whole: After the Seventh Circuit's judgment of May 1, 2002, Mishawaka's adult-category record closes quickly and then stops. The remand it ordered — further consideration of the sexual-devices ban and the judicial-review provision — produced no reported decision in the record reached, and that gap is printed rather than filled. The obscenity prosecutions arising from the 2000 raid ended in the 2003 plea. The Tribune's 2004 editorial is the ordinance's last appearance at size: a model for hundreds of communities, and unamended in any source reached since. No later council action, court case, licence proceeding, news story, or broadcast item in the classes searched touches a club, a club application, or a club tenancy in Mishawaka; when the region's one modern club fight came, in Fort Wayne in the summer of 2019, it was Fort Wayne's alone, and no Mishawaka echo of it surfaces in the record. That is the whole file since 2002. A private scene that never collided with a landlord, a government, or a prosecutor can be proved neither present nor absent from its silence — but in a city whose one adult bookstore generated an ordinance, a federal case, a raid, and a plea, the silence on clubs is total, and it is printed as the finding it is.

Sources:

1. Pleasureland Museum, Inc. v. Beutter, 288 F.3d 988 (7th Cir. 2002) — the remand whose later course no reported decision in the record reached continues.
2. South Bend Tribune (2003; 2004), as indexed in the newspaper's ProQuest archive — the plea that closed the obscenity cases, and the ordinance's model afterlife.