Source: APBy: Scott Sonner(RENO, NV) -- A former madam who remained on a brothel's payroll after she became a county commissioner was sentenced Monday to nearly four years in prison for her role in a racketeering and money laundering...
Source: News WireGay Colombian Widower Ruled HeirA family court in Santafe de Bogota, Colombia ruled in early March that a gay man must be recognized as the sole heir of his partner of five years. "Cristian" had cared for...
Source: News WireThe controversy over Vermont's move to establish "civil unions" for same-gender couples with most of the benefits of marriage is now going on in three different arenas: in the Senate Judiciary Committee now considering the bill and...
Source: BBCHundreds of sex workers have taken to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to celebrate a ruling that legalised prostitution.But the ruling by a lower court has now been suspended by the Bangladesh Supreme Court, which is...
Source: APBy: Laurie Asseo(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court made it easier for local governments to ban nude dancing, the entertainment in about 3,000 adult clubs nationwide, ruling Wednesday that a performer's freedom of expression can be restricted by forcing...
Source: ReutersBy: James Vicini(WASHINGTON) -- Nude dancing lost at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.Nine years after its last ruling on nude dancing, the nation's highest court decided that erotic entertainment performed without any clothes deserved only limited freedom-of-expression...
Source: APBnewsBy: Lisa Holewa(TAMPA, FL) -- "I'm easy," read the advertisement in the escort services section of Internet giant Yahoo's classified ads.But what's really easy, said Debra Roth, who is suing her 18-year-old stepdaughter over the ad, is using...
Source: APBy: Andrzej Stylinski(WARSAW, Poland) -- Despite efforts by conservatives and religious leaders, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski refused to sign a sweeping anti-porn bill into law Monday because of fears it would be unenforceable and damaging to the state's...
Source: ReutersBy: Jeanne King(NEW YORK, NY) -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's attempt to cut city funding to an Brooklyn museum for displaying a painting of the Virgin Mary that incorporated elephant dung has cost the city $5.8 million in a...
Source: APBy: Larry Neumeister(NEW YORK, NY) -- A federal appeals court judge said Monday the Giuliani administration's ``relentless onslaught of First Amendment litigation'' has put the courts in danger of having to perform crucial government functions.Judge Guido Calabresi of...
