Lawsuit over sexy dancing
A 64-year-old North Carolina woman has been awarded $275,000 after her town banned her from its weekly community dances. Rebecca Willis danced in short skirts, “simulating sexual intercourse with her partner, who hunched on the floor,” lawyers for the town of Marshall had alleged. But this week, the town decided to settle her lawsuit, a tacit admission—says Willis—that it had infringed upon her freedom of expression. “I won,’’ she said. “There’s really not much else I can say.”
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