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Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Spammer Conviction
On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the first felony conviction for spamming against Jeremy Jaynes, once listed as the eighth worst spammer in the world by The Spamhaus Project Registry of Known Spammer Organizations.
N.H. Supreme Court Reverses Virtual CP Conviction
The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned the child pornography possession conviction of a man who created composite sexual images by superimposing the heads of minors onto pictures of adults engaged in sex acts.
Ohio Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Strip Club
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Cheeks gentleman’s club in Miamisburg, finding that the Ohio Liquor Commission does not have authority under state law to suspend the club’s license stemming from the felony conviction of a former employee.
Italy Supreme Court: Secret Sex Videotaping OK
The Italian supreme court has acquitted a 49-year-old man who had secretly videotaped himself having sex with a woman who was unaware of the videotaping, ruling that recording secret videos of sex with your partner is not illegal.
Conn. Supreme Court to Decide Adult Store Case
The Connecticut Supreme Court will decide whether an adult store can open with viewing booths in North Haven, Conn. If the store is approved, it would be the first adult-oriented shop in North Haven with such booths.
Utah Supreme Court Upholds Computer-Generated CP Conviction
A transgender Utah woman who appealed a guilty verdict after the jury was told computer-generated images of nude minors are illegal — despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning a similar federal law — has had her guilty verdict upheld by the Utah Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Pandering Child Porn
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday regarding whether a child pornography law could be limited so that it would not apply to legitimate creative expression, vivid adolescent imaginations or innocent emails with provocative headings.
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Ala. Sex Toy Ban Case
Adult shop owner Sherri Williams has told XBIZ that the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear her case challenging Alabama's sex toy ban, ending an almost 10-year fight against the law.
Fla. Strip Club Prepared to Take Case to Supreme Court
Attorneys for Lollipops Gentlemen’s Club in Daytona Beach said Thursday that they are prepared to take their challenge to the city’s anti-nudity ordinance to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Williams Takes Ala. Toy Ban to Supreme Court
Sherri Williams, the Alabama adult store owner who has been fighting the state's sex-toy-sales ban since 1998, has taken the case to the Supreme Court in her final appeal, challenging the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the bedroom.
U.S. Supreme Court to Review Child Porn Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down a federal law that made sending computer messages offering child pornography a criminal offense even when no child pornography exists in the messages.
Mo. Supreme Court: Strip Club Law Unconstitutional
Declaring that a proposed law that sought to bar nude dancing and personal lap dances in gentlemen’s clubs was unconstitutional because the language of the bill changed too much as it was pushed through the Legislature, the Missouri Supreme Court has struck it down.
U.S. Supreme Court Considers Patent Reform
In what could prove to be a landmark patent case, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments addressing the so-called “obviousness test.” A ruling that tosses out the test, which many lawyers call the cornerstone of patent law, could make it easier to challenge patents in the future, something many in the adult entertainment industry who rely on new technologies to deliver their content, think is a good thing.
Ill. Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Alcohol at Strip Clubs
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a city ordinance that bars strip clubs featuring seminude dancing from serving alcohol does not violate the 1st Amendment.
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Sex Toy Case
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case involving a Texas law banning the sale of sex toys shaped like sexual organs.
Calif. Supreme Court to Decide Topless Club’s Jury Award
California’s highest court has decided to review the extent of a city’s responsibility when it obtained a preliminary injunction against an adult cabaret but eventually lost its case.
Store Case Goes Before Utah Supreme Court
John Haltom, owner of three Dr. John’s Boutiques in Utah as well as numerous stores in other state, had his day in court yesterday. He asked the Utah Supreme Court to overturn his 2000 conviction for selling a sexually explicit video to a minor.
Extreme Associate’s Black Fires Back at U.S. Supreme Court
A day after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Rob Black’s appeal, sending his case, U.S. vs. Extreme Associates, back to a lower federal court in Pittsburgh for trial, he fired back on his website.
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Extreme Associates Case
Weighing in on the long-running obscenity battle between the U.S government and Rob Black’s Extreme Associates, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the company’s appeal, sending the criminal case back to the district court in Pittsburgh for trial.
Supreme Court Rejects Store’s Plea to Block Eviction
The New York State Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Hempstead Video for an injunction against the eviction of the company’s Xpressions adult store in the village of Valley Stream.