Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Asset Seizures, Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Opinion/Analysis, Sex Trafficking, U.S. DOJ, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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On Friday, at the final pretrial hearing in the Backpage case, federal Judge Diane Humetewa in Phoenix shot down a defense suggestion that the prosecution not use the terms “sex trafficking” and “child sex trafficking” during the Aug. 29 trial…

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Backpage, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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On Thursday in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa denied a defense motion asking her to dismiss the five-year-old criminal case against veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. The ruling clears the path for an August 8 retrial…

Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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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…

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Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, News, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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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…

Backpage, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Opinion, Opinion/Analysis, Section 230, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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The U.S. Department of Justice has wasted four years and untold millions of tax dollars on the wrongful prosecution of award-winning journalists and former Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. Given the opportunity, the DOJ may waste more. Because…

Backpage, Censorship, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, U.S. v. Lacey & Larkin

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Forget smoking guns. In an appellate brief filed recently at the Ninth Circuit, defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case offer a series of flaming bazookas, detailing the prosecution’s unabashed intent to force the defense to move for a mistrial (and…