Posted in legal on Jul 2nd, 2009
NEW DELHI: In a historic judgement, the Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalized homosexuality by reading down section 377 of the Indian
The Section 377 of the IPC as far as it criminalizes gay sex among consenting adults is violation of fundamental rights, said the high court. However, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which [...]
Posted in legal on Feb 19th, 2009
A gay man in the US state of Georgia is disputing a child custody agreement restriction which prohibits him from “exposing his children to his homosexual partners and friends.”
Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy group, yesterday filed an amicus brief in support of Eric Mongerson at the Georgia Supreme Court.
The brief argues that restrictions on [...]
Posted in legal on Jan 21st, 2009
The Child Online Protection Act, now a decade old, appears to be permanently, completely, and otherwise absolutely dead now that the Supreme Court has rejected Bush Administration pleas to consider reviving the law one more time. According to the Associated Press, the rejection was made without comment by the justices.
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Posted in lbgt, legal, transgender on Dec 1st, 2008
By Joel Stashenko
New York Law Journal
November 28, 2008
ALBANY – A transgender individual should be allowed to legally assume a new name to reflect her identity as a woman, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.
In Matter of Earl William Golden III, 504992, the Appellate Division, Third Department, reversed the finding of Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey A. [...]
Posted in gay marriage, legal on Oct 10th, 2008
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts. The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will [...]
Posted in legal, transgender on Sep 22nd, 2008
From the Associated Press:
A former Army Special Forces commander passed over for a job as a terrorism analyst at the Library of Congress because he was changing genders won a discrimination lawsuit. Judge James Robinson of Federal District Court ruled that the Library of Congress had engaged in sex discrimination against Diane Schroer of Alexandria, [...]
Not long after I announced that my ex had discovered my blog and made an emergency application to the court seeking sole custody of our children, I was contacted by numerous parents who had been though similar court challenges of their custody based upon their particular sexual lifestyles.
A father wrote to share his sympathies, offering [...]
Posted in legal on Sep 10th, 2008
by Glenn Sacks
…LGBT activists believe courts haven’t adequately protected the rights of lesbian social mothers because of the tenuous legal status of gay marriages and relationships, and they’re partly correct. But much of the problem lies in the way courts treat noncustodial parents, regardless of sexual orientation.
According to the Children’s Rights Council, a Washington, DC-based [...]
Here’s a note from Jefferson about last night’s fundraiser. Thank you to all those who contributed, volunteered or attended! -Viviane
Last night’s Friends of Jefferson event was a great success. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed. Thanks especially to those who donated items to the raffle—which included, my gosh, an original drawing by Nayland Blake!—and [...]
I wasn’t going to comment on the Second Circuit’s decision reversing Glenn Marcus’ conviction until it was published, and I had read it–which I have now. What strikes me first and foremost is how close a call it was for Marcus–two of the three judges who voted to reverse his conviction did so on the [...]
A federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of a man dubbed the “S&M Svengali” and ordered a retrial in a sensational case that involved mutilation and extreme humiliation.
Glenn Marcus, 55, was convicted of breaking a law that wasn’t in place when some of the offenses happened, which amounted to a violation of the U.S. [...]
By: Mark Kernes
Posted: 08/07/2008
PITTSBURGH – Karen Fletcher, the Donora, Pennsylvania woman who ran the RedRoseStories.com Website, which the government charged contained obscene text pieces involving sex with and torture of underage characters, today pleaded guilty to six counts of “using an interactive computer service to distribute obscene materials.”
Fletcher, whose site had 29 subscribers worldwide and [...]
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An important member of the sex-positive community
urgently needs our help.
Jefferson—blogger, educator, and dear friend to so many of us—is at this moment fighting a court battle with his ex-wife, who is seeking full custody of their three children.
Jefferson’s love for his children has been well-documented on his blog One Life, [...]
BATON ROUGE – The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied petitions by Travis County (Tex.) D.A. Ronnie Earle and intervenor-defendant State of Texas to rehear the Reliable Consultants case, in which a three-judge panel found that the sale and use of adult novelties for purposes of sexual stimulation was protected by the Fourteenth [...]
Posted in legal on Jun 7th, 2008
Eric Krangel | June 7, 2008 8:00 AM
Pornographer Paul F. Little, who works under the moniker “Max Hardcore,” lives and works in California. But that didn’t stop the Feds from hauling Little 2,500 miles across the country to Tampa, Florida, where they convinced a jury to convict him on 20 counts of obscenity this week. [...]
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on May 15th, 2008
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
(05-15) 10:31 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry in California, the state Supreme Court said today in a historic ruling that could be repudiated by the voters in November.
In a 4-3 decision, the justices said the state’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the “fundamental [...]
Posted in legal, nyc, transgender on May 14th, 2008
A family court does not have the authority to compel New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services to pay for a foster child’s sex-change operation, an appellate court has ruled. In an unsigned, unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division, First Department, held that while Social Services Law §398(6)(c) requires the agency to provide “necessary medical and [...]
Posted in 2257, legal, legislation, pornography on May 5th, 2008
by Alan R. Levy, April 28, 2008
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Section 2257 of title 18 of the U.S. Code requires that “producers” of photographs and films of “actual sexually explicit conduct” create and maintain records documenting the age of the performers depicted in those performances. The statute’s purpose is to ensure that the performers are not [...]
Posted in gay, gay marriage, legal, marriage on Mar 31st, 2008
Pro-homosexual legal group hails decision as “another NY win on marriage”
By Michael Baggot
BROOKLYN, NY, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Last Tuesday, in a decision that follows the trend towards greater state recognition of same-sex “marriages,” the New York Appellate Division invalidated a lower court decision stating that Brady Davis was not entitled to New York [...]
Posted in child porn, legal on Oct 31st, 2007
from the WSJ Law Blog:
The provision of the statute at issue deals with the pandering of material as child pornography. It targets the person who “advertises, promotes, presents, distributes or solicits . . . any material or purported material in a manner that reflects the belief, or that is intended to cause another to believe” [...]
Posted in legal on Oct 26th, 2007
ATLANTA, Oct. 26 — After more than two years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a fellow teenager, Genarlow Wilson shook the hand of a warden Friday at the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga., and smiled shyly as he walked into the arms of his waiting mother and young sister.
Mr. [...]
Posted in legal, legislation on Oct 23rd, 2007
How Appealing reports that a court has struck down age verification requirements for porn sites, as a First Amendment violation. Here is the ruling (PDF). While the average reader here has never been to such a site, porn has been a driving force in the economics and technology of the Net. The age verification requirements [...]
Posted in legal, legislation on Sep 9th, 2007
The comment period for the H.R. 4472, the proposed regs for 18 U.s.C. 2257 ends tomorrow. I posted the action alert earlier in the week.
Have you written the DOJ to tell them how you feel about providing personal information to an adult website, and being regarded as a “secondary producer?” Are you comfortable with having that [...]
Gina Passarella
The Legal Intelligencer
08-24-2007
The Pennsylvania Superior Court isn’t buying the argument that a man who viewed child pornography on his computer, but didn’t save the images, couldn’t be charged with possession of child pornography.
A 7-2 en banc Superior Court panel in Commonwealth v. Diodoro reversed a prior three-judge panel that found there was not sufficient [...]
Substitute teacher Julie Amero, who had convicting of allow her students to accidentally view pop-up porn, was to have been sentenced today. Instead, her lawyers have successfully moved for a new trial.
From theday.com:
“Judge Hillary Strackbein said the state had conducted further forensic information that the jury had not heard at the trial. The information, according [...]
Posted in jessicacutler, legal, sexbloggers on Jun 1st, 2007
WASHINGTON – Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide whose online sex diary landed her a book deal and a Playboy photo spread but got her kicked off Capitol Hill, has filed for bankruptcy.
Cutler, a former aide to then-Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, created the “Washingtonienne” blog in 2004 and began posting racy details about her sex [...]
Posted in crime, law, legal, pedophiles on May 26th, 2007
Howard J. Bashman
A man is arrested in Las Vegas on federal criminal charges of traveling across state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor and using an interstate communication facility to attempt to persuade a minor to engage in sexual acts. The evidence against the man consists of the transcripts [...]
BY JAMES T. MADORE james.madore@newsday.com
April 26, 2007
ALBANY – Responding to concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn its decades-old Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision, [...]
Law blogger Denise Howell writes:
Late last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals came out with an important decision, Perfect 10 v. CCBill (PDF), that required it to interpret and apply both the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — two of the most important U.S. provisions governing conduct [...]
John Wirenius (a former public defender), comments on the press conference held yesterday by North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper regarding of the dropping of charges in the Duke lacrosse team rape case:
…Two things stand out for me in Cooper’s press conference:
First, Cooper was willing to criticize, in genuinely scathing terms, a sitting District [...]
