10th Circuit upholds search warrant for child possession based on two year old emails verifying purchase
U.S. v. Burkhart, No. 09-7091 (10th Cir. April 23, 2010)
Internet “on demand” availability doesn’t remove incentive to hoard child porn.
KY: Supreme Court upholds Louisville sexually oriented business ordinance
CitizenLink, DriveThru: “The Supreme Court of Kentucky handed the city of Louisville a huge gift today when it decided in favor of an extensive sexually oriented business ordinance passed by the Metro Council in 2004. All but one provision was held to be constitutional.”
Utah App.: Lewdness and distribution of pornography are separate offenses with different elements
Utah v. Coble, No. 20080866, 2010 WL 1617482 (Utah April 22, 2010)
For webcam offense, both lewdness and pornography distribution charges can apply.
KY Supreme Court strikes county “no touch” provision on overbreadth grounds
Blue Movies, Inc., et. al. v. Louisville/Jefferson City Metro Gov’t, 2007-SC-000812-DG (Ky. April 22, 2010)
Supreme Court of Kentucky upholds most of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government SOB ordinance, but strikes overbroad “no-touch” provision.
3rd Circuit: Search warrant is not stale where it was based on child porn accessed four months earlier
U.S. v. Vosburgh, No. 08-4702, 2010 WL 1542340 (3rd Cir. April 20, 2010)
Attempt to download, tendency to “hoard,” sufficient basis for child porn warrant.
6th Circuit upholds OH law prohibiting transmission of material harmful to juveniles via “personally directed electronic communications”
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland, Nos. 07-4375/4376 (6th Cir. Apr. 15, 2010)
6th Circuit: Ohio anti-porn law is constitutional
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Strickland, Nos. 07-4375/4376 (6th Cir. Apr. 15, 2010) “Ohio Revised Code § 2907.31(D)(1), which criminalizes sending juveniles material that is harmful to them . . . “
Gail Dines: Living in a porn culture
Living in a porn culture
New Left Project, Alex Doherty, 4.15.,2010
“The question I pose in Pornland is, what does it mean to grow up in a society where the average age of first viewing porn is 11 for boys, and where girls are being inundated with images of themselves as wannabe porn stars?”
Social Costs of Pornography: Statement of Principles, DVD available from Witherspoon Institute Consultation
The Witherspoon Institute’s 2008 Consultation on the Social Costs of Pornography “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. The primary purpose of the meeting was to examine the real nature of pornography in its moral and social consequences.”
