User talk:Dean.clark

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Maryland Brothel law
Hey Dean, I noticed that you removed the following text from Johns Hopkins University (this edit) with this edit summary: "I removed a line that claimed that Snopes.com rejected the idea of a brothel law. It referred to "snopes.com/college/halls/brothel.asp" which mentioned Maryland, where the law still DOES exist today.)"

Do you know where in Maryland law this "brothel rule" is written? I couldn't find anything useful online that directly confirmed/denied the rumor. The Snopes.com article attempts to show that all such rumors are bunk, but the evidence it refers to is for Louisiana, not Maryland. So it's still possible that a brothel rule exists in Baltimore.

If we can find something (a legal document, a newspaper article) specific to Maryland, then we should use that instead of the Snopes.com article. In the meantime, I've restored the Snopes citation, which examines the general idea of U.S. state brothel laws.

Happy editing, Omphaloscope talk 18:50, 20 January 2007 (UTC)