LOUISVILLE — It's been an on-again, off-again week for local nightclubs that offer nude dancing.

        A federal judge ruled Friday that 12 clubs licensed by the city as cabarets can again offer topless entertainment.

        At the request of PT's Showclub, U.S. District Judge John Heyburn II issued a preliminary injunction that bars the city from writing criminal citations for topless dancing at licensed cabarets. Citations issued by the city against 10 dancers at two cabarets — PT's and Godfather II — will be dismissed.

        Judge Heyburn's ruling means that the city's legal adult-entertainment offerings at cabarets have gone full circle in eight days — from topless, to topless and bottomless, to a ban on nudity and back to topless.

        Judge Heyburn warned that the status quo could change yet again, depending on what the city decides to do with its adult-entertainment law.

        On Monday, Jefferson Circuit Judge James Shake ruled that the city's 1998 cabaret-licensing ordinance was unconstitutional because it included unacceptable delays for applicants seeking a license.

        Some clubs took that as an opportunity to offer topless and bottomless entertainment. When Judge Shake subsequently ruled that just the cabaret-licensing provision was unconstitutional, city officials decided nightclubs no longer could offer topless dancing.

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