OCEAN CITY, Md. — The topics of gender equality and moral sensibility were up for debate Wednesday in federal court as Ocean City and five women argued over the constitutionality of the town's 2017 topless ban. Lawyers for both sides in Ocean City's ongoing topless lawsuit went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to make their cases. In August 2017, Ocean City passed an ordinance that banned only women, and not men, from exposing their breasts in public. The legislation was in reaction to inquiries Chelsea Eline, who stated in August 2016 that she wanted "to go topless in Ocean City."