The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents has fired veteran communications professor Joe Gow, stripping him of tenure for unremorsefully creating and appearing in adult content.
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A federal district judge in California has officially dismissed a case lodged against Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, by the Adult Performance Artists Guild (APAG) accusing the Mark Zuckerberg-owned enterprise of engaging in a civil conspiracy with Fenix International Limited, owner of OnlyFans.com.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and TechFreedom have filed an amicus brief supporting the Free Speech Coalition in the trade group’s case challenging the constitutionality of Texas House Bill (HB) 1181.
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.
Former President Donald Trump was dealt a pair of legal blows Thursday in litigation looking to lessen the existing severity of his ongoing hush money trial involving AVN Hall of Famer Stormy Daniels. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a conspiracy to silence Daniels from speaking out about their 2006 affair.
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.”
The Republican-run state government of Florida is stepping up efforts to redefine legal and policy terminology in a campaign to censor free speech concerning sexuality.
“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.”
LOS ANGELES — A controversial California federal judge ruled on Friday against Visa’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit alleging it “conspired” with MindGeek to profit from CSAM.
The Utah State Board of Education has approved official guidelines for how to ban books and other material from school libraries, amidst a moral panic stoked by religiously inspired activists seeking to cleanse education of “pornography.”