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Bad civics lesson: U. Maryland's president caves to state senator's efforts against on-campus erotic film screening.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) For many years, I have proudly defended the robust First Amendment rights of everyone, including political activists of all stripes, libel defendants, and the adult entertainment industry.  Politicians' efforts to clamp down on adult entertainment are hardly confined to the Bible Belt. In every state, most politicians seem to think they can score political points by attacking adult entertainment, which, of course, is an attack on the First Amendment.  Generally, government restrictions on adult entertainment necessitate strict scrutiny absent sufficiently relevant and reliable studies demonstrating negative local secondary effects from such entertainment. City of L.A. v. Alameda Books, 535 U.S. 425  (2002)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).