NEW DELHI, Feb. 4 -- January saw the culmination of the latest battle in a decades-long war between the Maharashtra government, and bar dancing. In Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association v State of Maharashtra, the Supreme Court (SC) was asked to consider the constitutional validity of a 2016 Maharashtra law (and some attendant rules), which was ostensibly passed to "regulate" bar dancing. The law was enacted on the heels of an SC judgment in 2013, which had struck down a previous legislative attempt to ban bar dancing entirely (while exempting certain elite establishments from the ban). The government's response to that judgment was to pass a fresh law in 2016, which imposed a set of conditions and licensing requirements, that made bar dancing virtually impossible....