The Board of Aldermen passed the bill Feb. 10 after a contentious meeting, on a vote of 15-12.

Tuesday’s lawsuit was filed on behalf of city residents Jeanette Oxford and Michael Chance, both of whom were involved in the effort to pass the ordinance in 2002.

The 2002 ordinance excludes “any such facility which is in existence and accommodating such games on the date of enactment of the ordinance codified in this chapter,” according to Section 3.91.010 of the ordinance.

Blues representatives did not respond to requests for comment.

In a decision invalidating the ordinance in 2015, Circuit Judge Thomas Frawley wrote that it was “too vague to be enforced.”

The law has so many “uncertainties,” he wrote in his ruling, “their sum makes a task for us which at best could be only guesswork.”

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