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The former owner of defunct adult site GirlsDoPorn, Michael Pratt, filed a complaint against the U.S. Marshals Service earlier this month alleging that he was denied placement in a prison with a protective custody unit for those who are guilty of federal sex crimes. 

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has officially exempted “adult programming” from the requirements outlined by the country’s Online Streaming Act, which requires quotas for the promotion of Canadian culture and social identity.

LifeStyles Healthcare, the multinational condom and sexual pleasure manufacturing company, is engaged in a trademark dispute with none other than reality television star and businessperson Kim Kardashian, reports tabloid the Daily Mail. The star is attempting to trademark “SKKN,” the name of her skincare line.

Attorneys for the Montreal-headquartered Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, urged a European Union (EU) court on Friday to annul its status as a so-called “very large online platform,” or a VLOP, under the bloc’s sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA).

A trade group representing some of the largest companies in the technology industry announced on Monday that it has sued the state of Virginia in a bid to block a social media law requiring both age verification and restricting usage to one hour per day for users under the age of 16.

A panel of three judges sitting on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a previous lower court ruling that blocked the state of Tennessee from enforcing an age verification statute applied explicitly to adult entertainment platforms.

The trial of former porn star Nikki Fairchild began Wednesday at the Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, where she stands accused of decapitating the father of her children, with her own defense being focused on shifting the blame to her former stepson, whom she married at one point.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at the Malibu/Lost Hills Station announced this week that it is requesting information from the public to aid in the arrest of model Mia Ventura, who is suspected of a series of residential burglaries throughout Los Angeles County, with a concentration in the Malibu area.

The government of New York City, the citywide school district and its healthcare system today sued the parent companies of social media platforms for allegedly fueling a mental health crisis among the city’s minors by addicting them to social media.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, an anti-porn Republican, on Wednesday warned major adult websites of legal action if they do not start complying with the state’s age verification law that entered force earlier this month. This warning comes after Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, chose to leave its platform accessible to users in the state’s digital space, citing a provision in the law that exempts “interactive computer services.”