On July 7, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit shot down a constitutional challenge to one of the most dangerous laws passed by Congress in recent memory: the 2018 Fight Online Sex…
With about a month to go before jury selection is set to begin in the retrial of veteran journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, defense attorneys have filed a new motion arguing that a June 23 decision by the U.S….
When the FBI arrested veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin on April 6, 2018, charging them in federal court in Phoenix with violations of the U.S. Travel Act, the federal government seized almost all of Lacey and Larkin’s assets…
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…
Nothing is ever done. And when it is done, It is soon enough, undone. After 49 years of Roe v. Wade, we now face the fundamental destruction of a woman’s right to control her own body. This is a direct…
A Feb. 9 start date in Phoenix’s federal court for the re-trial of veteran newspapermen and former Backpage.com owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin may be in question as a result of a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit…
In a 17-page decision filed Dec. 29 in federal court in Phoenix, U.S. District Court Judge Diane Humetewa set the Lacey/Larkin case on track for a Feb. 9 retrial, rejecting a defense motion that the Constitution’s prohibition on double jeopardy…
In the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision forbidding New York state from enforcing certain COVID restrictions on houses of worship, Justice Neil Gorsuch comes off as the judicial embodiment of that notorious line from U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater: “Extremism…
Talk about beating around the bush. According to Los Angeles Times reporter David Savage, lawyers for both sides in a trademark case regarding the word “FUCT” avoided uttering the the word during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this…
The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…
