An Activist Law Firm
Now that the far right has managed to pack the federal courts, it is becoming more and more rare to see a good old-fashioned speech protective case come down from
According to Miller v. California, in order for material to be deemed legally obscene, a court must determine the following: Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find
In an ongoing obscenity prosecution, Ray Guhn’s attorneys (disclaimer, my law firm represents Mr. Guhn), filed three key defense motions. In order to sustain a prosecution for obscenity, the government
A Johnson County, Kansas grand jury just handed down indictments against three businesses for “promoting obscenity.” (source) Spirit Halloween, a costume store affiliated with Spencer Gifts allegedly “displayed adult costumes
XBiz reports that the FBI has conducted five 2257 inspections in the state of Florida, and that all five turned up violations. (source). None of the violations were due to
DAYTONA BEACH — Attorneys for Lollipops Gentlemen’s Club said Thursday they will take their fight against the city’s anti-nudity ordinance to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the same time, police
Its an old story. Cop does some off-duty adult entertainment work, gets fired, claims that the firing is an infringement upon his First Amendment rights. I agree with that argument,
Panel discussion on CNBC here. Nice to see that nobody started wailing any “what about the children” rhetoric.
The Fairview Heights, Ill. City Council met on Tuesday to vote on an ordinance designed to ban erotic businesses from that city. The City Attorney told the City Council that
When I was a kid, my history teacher, Jim Brennan, showed us a film that made Full Metal Jacket look tame. It was essentially a documentary made from home movies
Citizens for Community Values is a hyper-right wing group of busybodies who are essentially the seeds of an American style Taliban who operate out of Cincinnati. The First Amendment be
The Sixth Circuit so held in Hamilton’s Bogarts, Inc., et al. v. State of Michigan, et al. ___ F.3d ___ (6th Cir. 2007) in a decision released on August 30,
