Legal Update

Hello to you.

You take pro boners case?

Immigrations relates.

Had little problems last year with Italian women's soccer teams and customs officer in Bahrains.

Thanks

I smoke crack rocks

Apparently I am one of the few people left on this board that isn't a surfer... so I'd like to say thank you Joe for the informative update!

Funny that one of the topics you covered was asked about here the other day (do not ship lists)... coincidence or inspiration?

Thanks, much appreciated.

There was an inspiration - but, no, I didn't see the post about No Ship Lists here, and it takes a more than a few days to research and write that kind of article, anyway. A dialog on another board inspired it, about a month ago, and I won't embarrass the truly impressive, major player gentleman on that board by mentioning his name. He thought Do Not Ship Lists were a good idea. But my sense is that he'd been fooled into thinking so. That was the inspiration. He's the one who told me how very bright lawyers who know what they are doing write those kinds of Lists to protect their clients, and added that guys like me just want people to get in trouble so we can make money defending them. Ouch. AVN showed interest in running a controversial article about this topic for its December print AVN Magazine. So, I resolved to lay out the facts and history of obscenity prosecutions as I see them - and the result is before you. Reach your own conclusions.

It gets really confusing when you are a Canadian company and need to comply with your homeland laws but also want to honor all US laws.

If you're a Belgian Beermaker, a Swiss Chocolatier, or a German Marzipan Confectionist, nobody in the US cares what you do or how you do it - until you try to tap the American market by importing it. It's only then that the American government can regulate what you import. In this digital age, though, as the Treasury and Justice Departments have each warned, every computer monitor is what they believe to be a port of entry into the United States. Hey, I don't write these laws or justify them, and everyone here knows that I oppose every law that gets in the way of freedom of expression - each and every one of them - but that's what the courts say. Read the passage in this case from the DC Court of Appeals, upholding Section 2257 in 1994, at the dawn of the adult internet, dealing with arguments about imported porn and Section 2257. http://www.xxxlaw.com/section-2257/ALA.RENO.html You'll find the passage at the end, at 33 F.3d 78, 94, 308 U.S.App.D.C. 233, 249 [This looks like *94,**249 in the text.]

You stopped me at Marzipan.
YUM!

Mein Gott, was ist mit das? Koennen Sie das trinken?

-Obenberger

My understanding is some states have laws against some sex toy sales. Could it be the sex toy scrub list and the potential obscenity scrub list got combined?

In a word, no.