JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A court decision in Daytona Beach in which a judge ruled in favor adult entertainment bars could make waves here in the river city.

The decision could eventually lead to relaxed rules about where strip clubs can be located and just how much exotic dancers can bare.

For several years, city leaders have constantly waged war with reglations of adult entertainment businesses.

Recently, a district judge stripped down one city's attempts to regulate the racy adult entertainment industry.

The judge in the Daytona Beach trial ruled in favor of bikini bars. The judge said the city's laws governing the bars violated the first and 14th amendments.

Jacksonville bikini bars are currently in the middle of similar lawsuits.

"It's the same federal district and almost the same kind of issues. So, I would expect it to have a tremendous impact on our current litigation with the city," said attorney Gary Edinger.

City leaders argue that the adult entertainment businesses lead to more crime, but attorneys for the businesses said that as proven by the decision in Daytona Beach, that's a bunch of garbage.

"An expert was retained by the bikini bars down there and was able to show there was no link between crime and bikini bars," Edinger said.

Councilwoman Suzanne Jenkins has spearheaded a lot of the ordinances that the adult businesses have problems with.

"We're not the only city and not the only state trying to grapple with the issues surrounding adult entertainment," Jenkins said. "I don't bring this because it's my pet peeve or my issue. I brought it because my constituents are very concerned about it."

Jenkins also said that given the ruling in Daytona Beach, the city is willing to negotiate on some points of the laws governing bikini bars, but not all of them.

"We have to decide as a council where we will hang tough and that's still being debated," Jenkins said.

Channel 4's Victoria Warren reported that the same expert that testified in Daytona Beach saying that the businesses were not related to crime, is ready to testify in Jacksonville on the behalf of the adult entertainment businesses here.