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Counsel from the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a far-right Republican, filed a 35-page-long motion Friday to dismiss a federal lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a controversial law recently adopted by the state that bans individuals aged 18 to 20 years from working in adult entertainment businesses. 

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In an amicus curiae brief submitted yesterday, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Electronic Frontier Foundation urged the Supreme Court to hear an appeal and ultimately reverse a lower court’s ruling on Texas’ HB 1181, saying that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, “if left standing, would impermissively burden free speech online.”

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“New York City’s eviction court – the venue of a landmark same-sex relationship decision long before Obergefell v Hodges – is now the source of a legal opinion that comes down clearly on the side of polyamorous unions. The decision came in the case of West 49th St., LLC v. O’Neill, decided by New York Civil Court Judge Karen May Bacdayan, concluded that polyamorous relationships are entitled to the same sort of legal protection given to two-person relationships.” 

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