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2007 · INDIANAPOLIS — THE STATE'S CASE, NOT THIS GROUND'S
Where a neighbouring variant of the record is stricter, it is carried under its own discipline: itemised, at boundary size, and marked as the state's, not this ground's. Indiana has exactly one reported appellate case about a swingers club, and it is Indianapolis's. In Broadhacker v. City of Indianapolis, 864 N.E.2d 372 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007), the operators of the Reel One club in Indianapolis challenged the city's public-nuisance ordinance (Indianapolis Code §§ 391-601 and 391-603) as applied to a members-only club; the Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment against the club, holding the club's private status a genuine issue of fact — the case stands for how fact-bound the door question is under Indiana law, and it decides nothing about any place in St. Joseph County. It is carried here at that size and no larger. The accompanying search note is the one printed in art-70-2 and art-70-3: the reported case law and the press of record were itemised by class and run under every synonym, and Broadhacker is the whole of what the case-law class holds for this category in Indiana. Two adjacent cases are excluded by category, by name, so they cannot be mistaken for club cases: Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991), is South Bend's own Supreme Court case, and it is a nude-dancing case about the Kitty Kat Lounge and the Glen Theatre — this county's, but not this category's; and BBL, Inc. v. City of Angola (7th Cir. 2015) is a strip-club zoning case from Steuben County. Neither documents a swingers club, and neither is counted as one here.
Sources: Broadhacker v. City of Indianapolis, 864 N.E.2d 372 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007), as reported in Justia's Indiana Court of Appeals decisions, read November 2026; Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991); BBL, Inc. v. City of Angola, No. 14-1199 (7th Cir. 2015).