Enough is Enough announces launch of Internet Safety 101
Washington Times: “Last week, a comprehensive new set of parental resources designed to keep kids safe in our high-tech world was unveiled by the nonprofit organization Enough Is Enough (EIE). This fabulous package of resources is called Internet Safety 101.”
TN: Shelby County Commission to limit adult businesses
Memphis Daily News: “The Shelby County Commission today will take the first of three votes on a city-county ordinance designed to further restrict adult entertainment businesses . . . The ordinance sponsored by commissioner Mike Ritz specifies that such businesses can’t operate within 1,500 feet of family recreation centers or parks. It also explains what such centers or parks are considered to be.”
Florida: Lawsuit over proposed strip club settled
Northwest Florida Daily News: “The city’s first topless bar may open by the end of the summer, according to The Oasis operator Terry Stephenson. The Destin City Council voted 5-2 last week to approve a settlement of a lawsuit brought by Stephenson over his right to operate a strip club in the city.”
Law Review: Internet Child Protection Registry Acts: Protecting Children, Parents and . . . Pornographers? Allowing States to Balance the First Amendment with Parents’ Rights to Privacy and Sovereignty in the Home
Internet Child Protection Registry Acts: Protecting Children, Parents and . . . Pornographers? Allowing States to Balance the First Amendment with Parents’ Rights to Privacy and Sovereignty in the Home
Samuel D. Castor, 59 Cath. U. L. Rev. 231 (2009)
“This Comment evaluates states’ role in the tug-of-war between governments attempting to help parents protect children from unwanted, and potentially harmful, electronic communications and the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from abridging a person’s freedom of speech.”
Pornography harms website launched
ChristianNewsWire: “Now a website has been launched to provide ready access to credible, peer-reviewed research documenting that harm. ‘Pornography Harms, is a one-stop location for sound research, news articles and opinion pieces demonstrating the harm from pornography,’ said Patrick Trueman, creator of the site. The site will be of great help to researchers at all academic levels and the press and concerned public.”
11th Circuit: County studies documenting negative secondary effects are sufficient for prohibition of alcohol at sexually oriented businesses
Flanigan’s Enterprises, Inc. v. Fulton County, Ga., No. 08-17035 (11th Cir., Feb. 16, 2010)
11th Circuit: County studies documenting negative secondary effects are sufficient for prohibition of alcohol at sexually oriented businesses.
Law Review: Creating a Legal Remedy for Victims of Porn 2.0
Sex, Privacy, and Webpages: Creating a Legal Remedy for Victims of Porn 2.0
Ariel Ronneburger, 21 Syracuse Sci. & Tech. L. Rep. 1 (2009)
“This paper addresses this problem by proposing an amendment to the CDA, creating potential liability for service providers who fail to at least investigate claims of non-consented pornography.”
Iowa Court of Appeals OKs strip club ruling
KETV: “The Iowa Court of Appeals will allow dancers to continue to perform at a controversial strip club.”
Iowa v. Judy, No. 9-587 / 08-1430 (Iowa App. Feb. 10, 2010)
9th Circuit panel: Indecent exposure is not categorically a crime of moral turpitude in California
Nunez v. Holder, No. 06-70219 (9th Cir. Feb. 10, 2010)
Indecent exposure is not categorically a crime of moral turpitude in California.
6th Circuit: Homemade child pornography does not fall outside purview of congressional legislative power
U.S. v. Bowers, No. 08-2412, (6th Cir. Feb. 8, 2010)
