It took the court six months to announce its decision. In the meantime the hotel was making money hand over fist with sex clubs and tour groups, but nothing like it would if they could turn it into a legal -- perfectly aboveboard! -- house of prostitution. No risk of arrest, no raids, no hassles. Just commercial sex served all varieties and kinks.
The decision was delivered to Kurt, the lawyer, by courier before it was released to the public.
When they heard the news that the decision was in, Emily and Karlo were taking a little after-sex nap. Emily was feeling a bit soggy from taking Karlo's massive load. They took a shower together, with more than a little affectionate groping, but there was no time for serious fooling around. Emily liked to streak across the alley from the back of the hotel to the club but she only did that late at night; she kept a pair of panties over there to put on once she got there because the liquor license commission banned total nudity except onstage. But was early afternoon and there were too many people around to walk around outside in the nude. Besides, these days there were too many police stakeouts around watching the hotel and Deidre's club, looking for any little infraction. So this time Emily reluctantly put on clothes. She wore a deeply scooped top with no bra -- her small, firm breasts didn't need one -- and a loose skirt with no panties. Her nipples poked through the top and if she leaned over all of her breasts were on display.
Together they went across the alley to Deidre's strip club to find out what happened. Kurt wasn't there yet so while Karlo, the hunky bouncer, attended to some things, sweet innocent Emily spent time chatting at the bar with the regular afternoon customers who had adopted her as their favorite since her inaugural amateur strip a few months earlier. (The other strippers didn't mind because she made the men horny and they got more action and bigger tips when she was in the bar.) The men kept figuring out ways to trick Emily into leaning over. Or to pull up her skirt so they could see her blonde pubic hair cut into a heart shape for Karlo, and admire the twat they loved so much. She fell for it every time.
Once Kurt arrived, they moved to a booth in the corner where they could all hear the news privately. As soon as they were settled, Karlo put his hand up Emily's skirt up and started rubbing her while they talked. He was glad to sit in on these business discussions now and not just help out as a driver. He had been kept in the dark about the details of what they were planning, and he felt left out, but it was done to make sure he didn't say anything to give it away by mistake. Kurt read the decision to everyone.
They lost their case. The Supreme Court of California ruled that Trixie was guilty as charged and that there was no right conferred on the owner of that property to engage in commercial sex conferred by a law passed in 1850 that recognized legal prostitution as an inviolable right unless the owner changed land use. Apparently, they had agreed to hear the case for the entertainment value and took so long writing the opinion because they were really having fun with it. Years later, in his memoires, the Chief Justice would write that he had never seen such a "creative" argument for something that was so clearly wrong.
The three partners and Karlo broke out in gales of laughter! Time to celebrate! They had lost! No one would make billions of dollars in legal prostitution in California! They laughed and smiled ear to ear and clinked their glasses in a toast to the absent Nuszsaecker!
Because Nuszsaecker had been left holding the bag! They had figured out months ago that Nuszsaecker would offer them a buyout on his terms to get control. Deidre knew all along that Nuszsaecker would want to grab it all for himself -- that was his nature. Emily used her new real estate license to discover that he had already bought every other lot on the same block except the one Deidre's club stood on, and most of the lots on the street facing the hotel. Kurt figured out in Sacramento that they weren't going to win when he heard the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of California break out in uncontrolled laughter the moment they were out of sight behind the curtain.
So, after everyone had said loudly in the conference room, knowing Nuszsaecker had it bugged, that they would never sell out, each of them called Nuszsaecker one by one later that week asking for more money for their share than he had offered! Emily called first, pretending that she needed the money to go back to school but she still wanted to keep her job at the hotel part-time because it was so much fun! Where else could she work nude? Emily thought at the time that if Nuszsaecker hadn't been blinded by greed, he would has seen that her argument was weak because two million dollars was more than enough to get a college degree, even in 1979. But Nuszsaecker bought into it! Emily never suspected that he had another reason.
Kurt was more demanding. If he was going to give up a chance at billions, it had to be worth his while! Nuszsaecker bought into it!
The gorgeous and enticing Deidre played on her years as Nuszsaecker's mistress. She told him that she had had big problems ever since this thing started. Since her name was on the deed for the hotel, the police had started watching her nightclub. There was surveillance of people coming in and out and she thought she had spotted a few plain-clothes detective mingling with the customers. Her regulars couldn't have a quick fuck or a blowjob in the VIP room anymore without fear of getting caught and her girls didn't dare turn a trick in the alley anymore. It just wasn't like the old days! The club had changed too much. She couldn't run it with the freedom (to skim from the cash receipts) and sexual abandon she had enjoyed for all these years. Nuszsaecker bought into it!