TN: Court of Appeals upholds rule prohibiting SOBs near churches
Tennessee Court of Appeals upholds zoning board ruling prohibiting sexually oriented businesses from locating near churches.
Wisconsin appeallate court upholds conviction for secret videotaping of consensual nudity
Wisconsin v. Jahnke, No. 2007AP2130-CR, 2008 WL 5397241 (Wis. App. Dec. 30, 2008)
Appellate decision upholds conviction for the secret videotaping of consensual nudity.
Michigan appellate panel upholds convictions of child porn subscribers
Michigan v. Lazarus and Michigan v. Flick, consolidated 06-004536-FH (Mich. App. Dec. 23, 2008)
Michigan appellate panel, in a consolidated appeal, upheld the conviction of two men for the knowing possession, via credit card subscription and download, of child pornography.
4th Circuit upholds conviction for cartoons, digital photographs, and emails depicting child porn
U.S. v. Whorley, No. 06-4288, 2008 WL 5265645 (4th Cir. Dec. 18, 2008)
4th Circuit upholds conviction for the knowing reception and communication of obscene “anime cartoons” depicting child pornography, digital photographs of child pornography, and obscene emails.
The Social Costs of Pornography: Witherspoon Institute Conference
Witherspoon Institute: “This meeting assembled leading experts in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, neurophysiology, philosophy, sociology, law, and political theory to present a rigorously argued overview of the problem of pornography in our society and to make recommendations.”
Do ‘Off-Site’ Adult Businesses Have Secondary Effects? Legal Doctrine, Social Theory, and Empirical Results
Richard D. McCleary and Alan Weinstein: “In this essay, we examine the legal, logical, and empirical bases of the argument used by off-site adult businesses to challenge the Constitutionality of ordinances.”
N.H. Supreme Court: “Nonobscene production” of sexually explicit films is not prostitution
New Hampshire v. Theriault, No. 2007-601, 960 A.2d 687 (N.H. Dec. 4, 2008)
Supreme Court of New Hampshire holds that a statute prohibiting as prostitution the “nonobscene production” of sexually explicit films is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment.
