It’s enough to make you blush: Some politicians want a bigger taste of the economy’s naughty side, pushing for special taxes on dirty magazines, racy movies, sex toys and strip clubs.
- Posted: 02/27/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: www.google.com
- Tags: State: California, State: Kansas, State: New York, State: Tennessee, State: Washington, Topic: Politics, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
The biggest challenge for Cosby and his supporters is demonstrating that sexually explicit videotapes featuring girls who appear underage are legally obscene, despite the fact that the same material is widely available via the Internet, cable television, mail-order and other businesses. This note will examine the attempt in Kansas to redefine community standards and obscenity law, as set forth in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence. Section II outlines the history and development of obscenity law as it will apply to Kansas. Section III explains how anti-pornography advocates are using grand juries in their latest effort to shut down Kansas pornography businesses. Section IV shows how the community standards doctrine has evolved to gradually erase the distinction between conservative and liberal communities. This evolution demonstrates that the hallmark of the nation’s obscenity test-community standards-has become unnecessary as technology helps to create a more national culture. The change further shows an overriding national desire to protect personal privacy and First Amendment rights over any concerns for developing a more conservative local standard.
- Posted: 02/18/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
- Tags: State: Kansas, Topic: Child Pornography, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Obscenity, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
Coyotes Show Club in Milford Township closed its doors Feb. 7 after a year of poor business and legal pressure by the community and The King’s Men (TKM), an Oreland-based men’s organization dedicated to ending pornography. Univest Bank assumed the mortgage of the sexually oriented business at a sheriff sale Friday. This followed the business’ filing of bankruptcy a month before.
- Posted: 02/16/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: thebulletin.us
- Tags: State: Michigan, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
The bill restricts the location of strip clubs, adults book stores or other sexually oriented places. It also prohibits alcohol from being served in the adult entertainment businesses and limits how late they can be open. Reed Soderstrom, a Minot attorney, says there are two strip clubs in Minot that are within a block of a Middle Schools. This law would push keep adult entertainment businesses 1,500 feet from schools, Daycares, churches, playgrounds and walking paths.
- Posted: 02/16/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: www.kxmb.com
- Tags: State: North Dakota, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
Berlin is one of at least 21 municipalities across Connecticut that already restrict — or are pushing to further restrict — sexually oriented businesses. “There’s been a lot of new studies of these businesses since 2006, when we last revised our ordinance, so the changes we made reflect the new information,” Mayor Adam Salina said of the updated ordinance, which the town council approved unanimously.
- Posted: 02/13/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: www.courant.com
- Tags: State: Connecticut, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
Dubbed the “Texas ‘Pole’ Tax,” this levy on strip clubs is one of a new set of modern sin taxes that has been imposed on a wide range of activities in recent years. Sin taxes–targeted excise taxes imposed on the sale of disfavored goods or services–are not uncommon; the United States has a history of taxing vices such as alcohol and tobacco in order to generate revenue in times of war, or to raise money for education. Although sin taxes are generally proposed in times of fiscal need, lawmakers often justify them by citing moral concerns. The argument posits that a given activity, such as smoking, is bad for society. By raising taxes on cigarettes, lawmakers force smokers to internalize the costs of their habit and will perhaps discourage some people from purchasing cigarettes altogether. But while discouraging anti-social or destructive behavior is a desirable goal, sin taxes are not an appropriate remedy for societal ills. Sin taxes are inherently regressive; they put a disproportionate burden on the poor, and they can create more problems than they solve. Not only do sin taxes burden the individual consumer, but they also jeopardize small businesses and promote unfair competition, and can lead to downsizing and layoffs for workers. In an effort to stamp out one particular activity, sin taxes may encourage smuggling and create violent black markets, especially when the item being taxed is available for less in a neighboring city or state. There is often considerable class bias influencing the decision of which activities to tax; the bulk of things subject to this extra burden are those most popular with the poor and working classes.
- Posted: 02/11/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
- Tags: Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
The Natrona County Commission on Tuesday approved the necessary measures to allow Chevron Global Power Co. to build an 11-turbine wind farm on the Texaco property near Evansville north of the North Platte River. The commissioners also renewed liquor licenses for the controversial strip clubs Northern Dreams and Cowboys.
- Posted: 02/04/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: www.trib.com
- Tags: State: Wyoming, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
XBIZ Research, the research and analysis arm of adult entertainment industry media organization XBIZ, has released the official results of the first-ever adult entertainment market research study, offering statistical information on business growth/decline trends as well as top issues of concern impacting adult entertainment companies.
- Posted: 01/29/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
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- Source: news.prnewswire.com
- Tags: Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
This Comment argues that the Tenth Circuit’s approach properly interprets the Supreme Court by providing deference to cities at the initial stages of litigation while still ensuring that cities are ultimately not relying on “shoddy data or reasoning.” The Fifth Circuit has improperly interpreted the initial evidentiary burden a city must meet when proving secondary effects by forcing municipalities to differentiate between on- and off-site businesses. Although a city cannot rely on shoddy evidence in zoning adult businesses, the Supreme Court never meant to create such a high bar for cities to overcome in meeting their initial burdens. While the First Amendment rights of those owning and operating sexually oriented businesses are well established, the protection of those rights does not require an evidentiary burden so high that cities are unable to address potentially serious problems that may affect their citizens.
- Posted: 01/22/2009
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- Category: Miscellaneous
- Tags: Court: 10th Circuit, Court: 5th Circuit, Topic: Legal Periodicals, Topic: Pornography, Topic: SOB Regulation
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