Need proof that the United States is exceptional among nations? Look no further than the First Amendment to our Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
At the first glimpse of anti-sex work researcher Dominique Roe-Sepowitz on screen, a round of boos erupted from the audience at Tucson’s Screening Room on Friday, where they were watching a preview of director PJ Starr‘s upcoming documentary, Manifesting Monica…
Normally, I don’t like to read books on Kindle, but in the case of Samantha Cole’s breezy, brilliant sex-positive chronicle, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, I practically gulped it down over the…
A recent article in Forbes by the magazine’s associate editor, Thomas Brewster, accuses the popular money-transfer giant Cash App of being the “payment tool of choice” for sex trafficking and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), aka, child pornography. However, Brewster’s…
Award-winning journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin — and their four co-defendants — have a long, hot summer in store for them next year. During a brief status conference Wednesday morning in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa scheduled…
Sometime in late March or early April could mark the beginning in Phoenix of the biggest First Amendment trial in the nation — the retrial of famed journalists and former Backpage.com owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. That is, if…
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix scheduled a status conference in the Lacey/Larkin case for November 2 at 10 a.m., when attorneys for both sides will discuss dates for a new trial to take place sometime…
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied an attempt by veteran newspapermen and former Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin to reverse a lower court’s decision not to dismiss the…
The rare moments of levity during the half-hour session at the Ninth Circuit on Sept. 2 in the Lacey/Larkin appeal came at the government’s expense as litigators jousted before a three-judge panel at the James R. Browning United States Courthouse…
Nearly a year since their first trial ended in a mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct, storied newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin head to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on September 2, arguing that a retrial would…
One of the great ironies of the federal government’s criminal pursuit of veteran newspapermen and former Backpage owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, is Backpage’s winning record in court. Prior to their 2018 arrests, federal and state judges repeatedly upheld…
