“Breasts are not genitalia, and drivers don’t gawk at the word ‘love’ — a First Amendment problem,” is the title of an Althouse post. In case you’re wondering, the buttocks is not genitalia either, although some have believed it so. “Millions May Be at Stake in Suit Over Hit NBC Game Show” appears in a [...]
Texas sexual device ban held unconstitutional
February 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just reviewed Texas’s obscenity statute, and here’s how the opinion begins: This case assesses the constitutionality of a Texas statute making it a crime to promote or sell sexual devices. The district court upheld the statute’s constitutionality and granted the State’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a [...]
Georgia law continues to honor the Sabbath
February 12, 2008 By 1 Comment
“Despite public sentiment, Sundays likely to stay dry for now,” is an article which appears in today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution. If you haven’t heard, Georgia is contemplating (again) a Sunday sales bill that would allow communities to decide whether they want to allow beer, wine and liquor retail package sales on Sundays. (Georgia is one [...]
Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store
February 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
If I didn’t know Virginia Beach, I’d have guessed this was a publicity stunt. But it’s not. According to the article from Hampton Road’s PilotOnline.com (via The Drudge Report), Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and [...]
I like what you’re saying, so I won’t zone you out.
February 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Over at The Volokh Conspiracy Ilya Somin has posted that Berkeley is “considering enacting a zoning ordinance to restrict [military recruiters'] location[s] in much the same way as other cities use zoning to restrict or ban businesses selling pornography.” He writes: Conservatives are justifiably outraged by the proposed Berkeley measure. I share their indignation. However, [...]
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