The state's highest court sent their case back to trial court today.

Court of Appeals approved the move in a 4-to-3 decision.

Several adult clubs and video stores sued New York City over a 2001 amendment that banned all adult entertainment activity outside certain industrial areas.

The amendment changed a 1995 law that was designed to clean up Times Square and other neighborhoods by banishing sex shops to industrial districts.

Times Square once had 120 sex-related businesses, but the number has dropped to less than 20.

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