Last week, conservative Republican Attorney General for the State of Alabama Troy King found himself the focus of the latest political sex scandal, when alleged reports surfaced that his wife had discovered him in bed with a male assistant.
A rare move made last week by the U.S. Supreme Court may indicate that the nation’s highest court is giving real consideration to hearing a case challenging Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys, according to legal experts familiar with the case.
In a blow to sex toy and novelty retailers, Alabama’s sex toy ban survived another court challenge in federal court. A U.S. District Court in Birmingham ruled that Alabama has a right to limit sales of vibrators, sex dolls and butt plugs, as well as any other device used for sexual arousal.
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal in February to hear an appeal to an Alabama law that prohibits the sale of sex toys, a number of plaintiffs from that case have filed a new challenge in U.S. District Court in Huntsville.
After two-and-a-half years of legal maneuvering, officials in Calhoun County, Ala., have convinced a local judge to let them destroy more than $250,000 worth of movies seized in a 2003 raid on an adult video store.
The nation’s highest court snubbed the adult novelty industry and free-speech advocates Tuesday when it rejected an appeal to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys.
After coming under fire for having one of the toughest obscenity laws in the nation, an Alabama Supreme Court amended the law by ruling that a person can only be convicted of obscenity once for possessing "obscene material"
