Jersey Shore ‘Prom Season’ Epicenter Defends Under-21 Rental Ban

A motel in the town made famous by Jersey Shore’s Snooki and The Situation is fighting for young peoples’ right to party.

An lively oral argument at the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division Tuesday tackled whether the Borough of Seaside Heights’ ban on spring and early-summer room rentals for 18-, 19- and- 20-year-olds violates constitutional rights to association and privacy. The judges took the question seriously, in between references to the “shenanigans” tri-state youth get into down the shore.

“It’s Seaside, it’s the same reason MTV went there—South Jersey is wild,” Judge Ronald Susswein said when the township’s attorney ...