The battle between Ocean City and boardwalk performers has escalated once again.
This time the performers are asking for an additional $1 million from shop owners and names the City Solicitor
Guy Ayers as a defendant in the case.
This is an addition to the complaints in a lawsuit which is calling the resort’s restrictions on the street performers to be dismissed and $1 million from the resort itself.
It also calls for the City Solicitor to be suspended.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the suit charges that a number of unnamed shop owns have illegally deprived them of their constitutional rights.
The paper reports that all of this comes despite a meeting with the Boardwalk Taskforce to hash out potential alterations in the ordinance.
One suggestion has been to offer up spots in a lottery rather than forcing performers to camp out to get a spot as they did last summer.
