HARTFORD, Conn. – Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he’s fighting a federal court decision that threatens cities and towns’ ability to regulate sexually oriented businesses.

Blumenthal said Wednesday that he has asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to overturn a lower court’s decision in a case involving the town of Berlin and the VIP chain of adult stores.

The attorney general is joining Berlin’s appeal of the lower court’s ruling, which would allow VIP to open a store within 250 feet of a residential neighborhood in Berlin. The ruling says a town ordinance prohibiting the store is unconstitutionally vague.

A message was left with a lawyer for VIP.