Source: ABCNews.com
WASHINGTON - The Senate unanimously approved today a measure stating that the federal government should withhold funds from the Brooklyn Museum of Art unless it cancels a controversial exhibit featuring a picture of a feces-embellished Virgin Mary.
By voice...
Source: AP
By: Bart Jansen
(WASHINGTON) -- Federal lawmakers and activists urged approval Thursday of a bill that would make it illegal to depict cruel treatment of animals for commercial purposes.
"It's beyond horror; it's evil," actress Loretta Swit, who represented Actors...
Source: Reuters/Variety
By: Gail Appleson, Law Correspondent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Publishers may have to pay freelance writers, photographers and artists an extra fee for work reproduced in electronic databases or face the daunting task of deleting the material, under a...
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mattel Inc. (NYSE:MAT - news) sued an Internet company Tuesday seeking redress for the undress of women on an adult entertainment site using the Barbie trademark name.
Mattel sued Internet Dimensions Inc. in Manhattan federal...
Source: AP
By: Beth Gardiner
NEW YORK (AP) - The Brooklyn Museum of Art has taken New York City to court over an upcoming exhibit of controversial British art, catapulting a philosophical debate into the legal realm.
Museum trustees asked for a...
Source: Reuters
By: Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City museum said Tuesday it would go ahead with a controversial art exhibit this week, despite threats by an enraged Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to evict the museum from its...
Source: Free Speech X-press
By: Kat Sunlove
(GARDENA, CA) -- A group of ministers wants the San Joaquin Valley Hustler Casino to change its name.
They say the name is associated with pornography and the worst elements of society. The Gardena Ministerial...
Source: Newswire
(FAYETTEVILLE, TN) -- A police sergeant has been indicted on charges of being nude and exposing himself to the public while in his own home.
Sgt. Jeff Dorning was charged with six counts of public indecency and six counts...
Source: News Wire
(MEMPHIS) -- Libraries in Memphis and Shelby County are declaring war on computerized pornography.
The libraries will soon install software to block access to Internet porn. Cyber Patrol software is roughly 90-percent effective.
Anti-pornography activists say the move makes...
Source: AP
By: Beth J. Harpaz
(NEW YORK, NY) -- Taking a stand at odds with the man she'll probably run against next year, the first lady said today she doesn't personally approve of a museum's controversial exhibit but thinks it's...
