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Vegas Strip Club Owners Challenge State Tax

Vegas Strip Club Owners Challenge State Tax By: Carlos Martinez From AVN: LAS VEGAS – The owners of eight strip clubs have asked a federal judge to throw out Nevada’s live entertainment tax, claiming it’s a violation of their First Amendment rights. Last Tuesday, the owners of the Déjà vu Showgirls, Little Darlings, Spearmint Rhino, …

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Grand Jury to Investigate Kansas Adult Stores Again

Grand Jury to Investigate Kansas Adult Stores Again By: Thomas J. Stanton (from AVN) TOPEKA, Kan. – Relying again on a Kansas law which mandates a grand jury investigation if enough names can be gathered on petitions, Abilene anti-adult entertainment proponent Phillip C. Cosby, and Paul Barnes, president of Topeka Evangelical Area Ministries, have announced …

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Bush administration wants mandatory website labeling

Bush administration wants mandatory website labeling From Boing Boing Snip from a CNET News.com report by Declan McCullagh: Web site operators posting sexually explicit information must place official government warning labels on their pages or risk being imprisoned for up to five years, the Bush administration proposed Thursday. A mandatory rating system will “prevent people …

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Experts Tell City that Adult Stores Don’t Cause Crime

From AVN: Experts Tell City that Adult Stores Don’t Cause Crime By: Carlos Martinez MANCHESTER, Conn. – Despite some complaints to the contrary, experts in this small hamlet told city officials that adult stores don’t cause crime. Lori Sudderth, associate professor of Qunniepac University with a doctorate in sociology, told the Manchester Board of Directors …

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TV networks and affiliates challenge FCC on “indecency”

TV networks and affiliates challenge FCC on “indecency” Four television networks — ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox — and their respective affiliates are challenging an FCC ruling that several programs were indecent because of language. Snip: The move represents a protest against the aggressive enforcement of federal indecency rules that broadcasters have complained are vague …

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South Africa; Porn restrictions aim ‘to protect children’

Porn restrictions aim ‘to protect children’ from iol.co.za Edwin Naidu April 09 2006 at 10:38AM The government is clamping down on pornography. South Africa’s revised porn law restricting the sale of sex publications to adult stores comes into effect on July 1. The new regulations in the Films and Publications Act make it an offence …

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