Federal judge strikes obscenity laws
A U.S. district court in Pennsylvania has invalidated the federal obscenity statutes:
The Justice Department today lost the first major test case of the federal obscenity laws when a judge in Pittsburgh threw out an indictment of Extreme Associates, a California company that makes films of women being gang-raped, defecated on and having their throats slit.
The court's opinion, in PDF format, is here.
(Thanks to How Appealing.)