Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that the Department of Justice will appeal Extreme Associates’ lucky turn of fate, re-opening an obscenity trial against Rob (Rob Black) Zicari and Janet (Lizzie Borden) Romano. A Pittsburgh Federal Court Judge last month threw out the 10-count charge against Extreme, declaring certain federal obscenity laws unconstitutional.
“Certain activities do not fall within (First Amendment) protections,” Gonzales declared in today’s announcement, “such as selling or distributing obscene materials.”
This means that crafting obscene materials is OK; you just can’t make copies or money from them. I think it’s the money that’s ruined this industry, anyway.
Judge Lancaster had cited in his 45-page opinion a 2003 Supreme Court decision that nullified a Texas homosexual sodomy law, noting the protection in both cases against unwarranted government intrusions in private places. The ruling, Black said on his website, “basically reshaped the way obscenity now is tooken in government.”
Black told the Associated Press that he was not surprised by the decision to appeal. “They touted my case for almost a year and a half about this being an important step in kind of stamping out the adult product as we know it,” he said.
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