Mike Carter reports that the City of Seattle was in the wrong and must now pay $1 for delaying permits to convert Cyndy's House of Pancakes into a strip club. Now the club's owner, who has repeatedly won monetary rewards for challenging local prudish, anti-strip club policies, wants more cash:

The award, though nominal, allows Bob Davis and his company, ATL, to ask U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik to award attorneys' fees in the case, which was filed in 2009. The city has said it will oppose paying the fees, said Seattle City Attorney's Office spokeswoman Kimberly Mills.

Davis keep winning cases like these—the city had to shell out $500,000 to Davis in 2006 and Bothell had to give him $350,000 in 2008—so now seems like a great time for the city to give up its strip-club hissy fit. Even when the city wins, it's after filing expensive lawsuits. I know, I know, they're afraid of a strip club opening up a couple blocks from a school yard. But, shit, I'm more concerned about the city wasting millions defending itself or charging cases in court, paying out monster settlements, and covering attorney's fees when it loses. And if the kiddies see the exterior of a titty* bar** on the bus ride to school, well, so be it.

* I should not use this word.
** They're not actually titty "bars," as the state allows only titty "soda parlors."