Here’s an interesting Professor-of-law blog (plawg): Leonard Link. The plawg bills itself as, “Reporting and commentary on law, music, film and current events by New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard, with a special emphasis on Sexuality & the Law.” Interesting stuff. I really enjoy Mr. Leonard’s analysis on First Amendment decisions, such as [...]
Wine Tasting, not Wine Wasting
August 30, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A wine retailer (Bruce Gibson) in Harwich, Massachusetts “was before selectmen Monday night to answer charges that on two occasions, July 19 and Aug. 2, he service [sic] wine outside the license premises, and on those occasions served more than one ounce of the libation, the maximum limit for wine tastings allowed by law,” as [...]
Anti-gambling laws
August 28, 2006 By 1 Comment
Check out Ed Brayton’s post on Dispatches from the Culture Wars, and this take on anti-gambling legislation: “[the government] spend[s] millions promoting games that are purely games of chance – lotteries – while sending SWAT teams to stop people from playing poker, a game of skill. Apparently, it’s only immoral and dangerous to bet against [...]
PA Pro-Family Group seeks to reinstate law regulating nude dancing
August 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the center of the AFA of PA‘s political firestorm is available here. According to the AFA article (click blue title above), “‘The statute that was struck down last Tuesday had been in effect for over fifty years with only minor changes. Apparently the judges on this three-judge [...]
Just type "adult entertainment" and …
August 27, 2006 By Leave a Comment
18 U.S.C. § 2257′s creating wake(s)
August 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“New federal regulations are changing the way gay men post nude photos of themselves online and may be curtailing the supply of adult entertainment available on the web,” reports Southern Voice Online here. The new federal statute: § 2257. Intended to curb child pornography, this law requires that sites and stores offering pornographic material to [...]
Welcome to the Hotel Porn-is-for-ya
August 23, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“A coalition of 13 conservative groups – including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America – took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws,” [...]
On (and beyond) the waterfront
August 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
News from South Carolina: “Horry County pressed forward Monday on the state’s first casino boat tax despite a legal challenge from a boat operator. The tax could go before County Council next month and, if passed, net millions of dollars in annual revenue from two gambling boats in Little River, according to the council’s Administration [...]
We don’t like your billboards
August 21, 2006 By Leave a Comment
“A two-year-old state law banning sexually suggestive billboards along Missouri highways is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court panel ruled Monday,” reports Law.com here. It looks like Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Serv. Comm’n of N.Y., 447 U.S. 557 (1980) got in Missouri’s way. But don’t take my word for it. You can [...]
Can ‘the slots’ be mastered?
August 20, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Apparently maybe. The www.MiamiHerlad.com reports here about the Chuck E. Cheese exception to Florida’s gambling statute, which allows coin-operated games if a skilled player can manipulate the outcome. So can you master the one-armed bandit? It’s a fact, maybe — just check it out here on Wikipedia.
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