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"Federal obscenity case, filed 5 years ago, has stalled"

"Federal obscenity case, filed 5 years ago, has stalled": Today in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Paula Reed Ward has an article that begins, "In August 2003, the U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh made national headlines by filing obscenity charges against a California company that makes graphic pornography. At the time, many saw the case against Extreme Associates as a prelude of things to come under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. But in the five years since, the case has languished. There had been no entries in the case docket since Aug. 17, 2007, until a reporter called the judge's chambers last week to inquire about the case." (Via "LawBeat").

Full post as published by How Appealing on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).