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Mark Kernes comments on John Stagliano's debate with Barry McDonald in the L.A. TImes.

Mark Kernes comments on Day 3 of the L.A. Times 'Dust Up' featuring John Stagliano and Barry McDonald.

Evil Angel owner John Stagliano faces off with law professor Barry McDonald on the recent controversy surrounding the judge in the Ira Isaacs obscenity trial.

U.S. District Judge Sarah Evan Barker ruled that an Indiana law designed to crack down on adult retailers is unconstitutional.

First Amendment attorneys H. Louis Sirkin and Jennifer M. Kinsley have filed two lawsuits on behalf of Ohio residents and workers, seeking to overturn the requirement in the 2006 Adam Walsh Act that states beef up their sex offender registries.

Joe Francis, who has been in court to face various allegations in recent years, could find himself there again, as Wynn Las Vegas hotel representatives filed a lawsuit seeking payment for an unpaid gambling debt.

Director John Stagliano of Evil Angel responded strongly in the first round of an L.A. Times op-ed debate on obscenity and the 1st amendment.

Did the mainstream media mislead the public about the contents of Judge Alex Kozinski's so-called 'porn website'?

The Religious Right makes another bid to erase the separation of church and state.

CashTitans.com owner Ray Guhn and his three co-defendants, Andrew Craft, Kevin Patrick Stevens and Thomas Dwyer, charged variously with obscenity, racketeering and money laundering and facing collectively up to 90 years in state prison, entered guilty pleas Tuesday, which will net each defendant much smaller sentences.

Ray Guhn Productions is no more, as Guhn and fellow defendants Andrew Craft, Kevin Patrick Stevens and Thomas Dwyer pleaded guilty to various charges Tuesday.

Assemblyman Charles Calderon has reduced his proposed California state tax on adult entertainment to 8.3 percent in an amended version of the bill.

AVN's Mark Kernes reports on the latest hearing in the notorious obscenity case.

It's been five years since the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its opinion in Lawrence v. Texas - but apparently, police in West Raleigh, N.C., haven't yet been made aware of the ruling.