{"id":80255,"date":"2025-12-03T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80255\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:26:19","slug":"lawsuit-against-fresnos-smoke-shop-ordinance-thrown-out-by-federal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80255\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit against Fresno&#8217;s smoke shop ordinance thrown out by federal court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit against the City of Fresno&#8217;s smoke shop ordinance has been thrown out by a federal court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City leaders made the announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The lawsuit was brought on earlier this year by the California Smoke Shops Association, saying the ordinance violated its members&#8217; rights to equal protection under federal and state laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city was able to continue enforcing the ordinance during litigation, as a federal judge has blocked an effort to temporarily halt enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Council Vice President Miguel Arias says the city attorney&#8217;s office, along with code enforcement, has shut down 26 smoke shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He says the goal is to shut down all smoke shops by December 20-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lawsuit against the City of Fresno&#8217;s smoke shop ordinance has been thrown out by a federal court.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[45958,7934,1053,45961,7337,5782,112,114,113,827,45960,45959],"class_list":["post-80255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-smoke-shops-association","tag-city-leaders","tag-city-of-fresno","tag-equal-protection","tag-federal-court","tag-federal-judge","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-ordinance","tag-president-miguel-arias","tag-smoke-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}