LEGAL INDUSTRY NEWS

The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) responded today to AHF’s press conference concerning voter support for a LA County-mandated condom ordinance. read full story...

The bill, which sponsor Vic Williams says was drafted to address online harassment and stalking, and to protect people's privacy, contains language so sloppily written that UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, who is certainly no tinfoil hat-wearing leftie, said it would not pass constitutional muster. read full story...

Jerry Barnett, the managing director of U.K. adult VOD provider Strictly Broadband Ltd. and chairman of AITA, the UK’s adult industry trade association, has penned an open letter that protests regulations being enforced against adult online companies by a U.K. regulator. read full story...

While the Australia 21 report has finally concluded that the war on drugs has proved futile, the Sex Party’s rising vote has been directly linked to its policies around drug law reform, according to its president, Fiona Patten. read full story...

Spain's largest trade association of "luxury escorts" have gone on strike against any of their clients who happen to be bankers. In other words, no nookie for them—until they "return to providing credits to Spanish families and also small- and medium-sized businesses." read full story...

A carefully-crafted new law in Washington state appears to be directed at protecting minors from being sexually exploited by pimps who traffic the girls through online escort sites like BackPage.com. read full story...

Nevada District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonazalez entered an order March 21 that all but signals the conclusion of Consipio Holding v Private Media Group, the seemingly interminable lawsuit that has resulted in the removal of the Berth Milton as the company's CEO and chairman of the board. read full story...

With the release of Bettie Page Reveals All, a feature-length film by Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker and Emmy winning TV producer Mark Mori, the world at last gets to hear Page's story, narrated by Page herself in the years prior to her death at age 85 in 2008. The compelling 100-minute film was authorized by the famed former pinup as the only film biography on her life. read full story...

MOMENTUM will be opening its closing plenary panel to the general public for a $10 donation which will go towards The Dr. Elders Chair in Human Sexuality at University of Minnesota Medical School. Alongside noted journalist Lara Riscol and therapist and international best-selling author Esther Perel, former US Surgeon General Dr. Jocelyn Elders will speak about her lifelong mission of changing the sexual status quo and progressing the conversations we have about sex in America beyond the smut and sanctimony rhetoric that stagnates our growth and puts our health at risk. read full story...

The Erotic Service Providers Union, in conjunction with Margo St. James' Hookers Ball, is proud to announce a special benefit "Punk Rock Show" that will support ESPU's legal action to expand sexual freedom rights by continuing to challenge anti-prostitution laws. read full story...