The Sun won an historic legal victory yesterday after exposing the prostitute in the Wayne Rooney brothel libel case as a liar.
Gran Patricia Tierney, 52, tried to swindle hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages from us, claiming she was just an innocent receptionist.
She claimed her life had been ruined by a series of articles identifying her as a hooker known as The Auld Slapper in a Liverpool brothel Rooney used as a teenager.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues at 5:22 AM EST
The Full story: The Sun
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When lax cybersecurity meets anti-porn hysteria, an innocent computer infection can land you in jail. Just ask Julie Amero, a 40-year old substitute teacher who maintains she's a victim of a malicious software infestation that caused her computer to spawn porn uncontrollably.
Julie Amero, a 40-year-old substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing up to 40 years in prison for exposing her seventh grade class to a cascade of pornographic imagery. Amero maintains that she is a victim of a malicious software infestation that caused her computer to spawn porn uncontrollably.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues at 4:46 AM EST
The Full story: Information Liberation
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Sandra is 21, blonde and speaks English and German. She describes her interests as meeting new people, horse riding and dancing. The attractive Czech national also charges €250 for an hour’s sex.
For that, the 5’6” bisexual, who advertises her vital statistics as 36B-24-34, offers a range of services including role reversal, spanking, uniforms and other more lurid offerings on her website, which features a series of photographs of her, mostly topless.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, Legal Issues at 3:53 AM EST
The Full story: Irish Examiner
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Different factions of the gay community are being urged to support one of two differing petitions on a new law regarding “violent pornography.”
The Criminal Justice Bill, unveiled in last month’s Queen’s Speech, would ban the possession of online and printed porn depicting "scenes of extreme sexual violence...
Posted by Super Sub in: UK, Legal Issues at 4:16 AM EST
The Full story: Pink News
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WASHINGTON - Tucked away in a spending bill pending in Congress is language the porn industry finds offensive.
Along with billions of dollars in funding for the Justice Department and the State Department is a little-noticed provision that would require Web sites that feature "sexually explicit" content to contain special labels to make it easier to keep kids away from them.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, Internet, USA at 5:29 AM EST
The Full story: Newhouse News
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In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from jail - in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.
Stephen Michael Cohen has been ordered to hand Gary Kremen $65m by a US court but despite years of intense fighting has yet to hand over one cent.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, Internet at 12:20 PM EST
The Full story: The Register
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LOS ANGELES - Grammy-winning pop singer Mariah Carey is trying to block porn star-turned politician Mary Carey from trademarking her similar-sounding stage name, saying that fans could get the two performers confused.
But the adult film actress, whose real name is Mary Cook, said on Friday that she would not be intimidated by the international superstar and will press forward with her trademark application.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues at 8:55 AM EST
The Full story: Reuters
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Five Martinsville firefighters will undergo lie detector tests as their department tries to determine who ordered pay-per-view pornography at a firehouse in May, 6News' Jeremy Brilliant reported Wednesday.
Fire Chief Tim Fraker said 17 movies, most of them pornographic, were ordered from a cable service and watched during regular shifts in late May.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA at 5:42 AM EST
The Full story: The Indy Channel
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Paris - The days of condom-free porn on French cable television are nearing an end.
Starting next year, channels will no longer be allowed to air porn with scenes of unprotected sex because it sets a dangerous example, the official French broadcasting watchdog High Audiovisual Council, or CSA, announced Wednesday.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, Legal Issues, Health at 6:59 AM EST
The Full story: News 24
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The 2003 Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court ruling was a victory for GLBT and sex positive activists everywhere.
Two consenting adults were now allowed to have any type of sex they wanted within the confines of their own homes. But as the news hit the masses, several people pondered how this ruling would affect anti-prostitution legislation, as well as laws prohibiting sex in public spaces. I guess they imagined that once people were allowed to do whatever they wanted, they would do it wherever they wanted.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA, Gay Issues at 6:49 AM EST
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Eyewitness News has learned high-ranking Orlando police officers admitted under oath they were emailing each other pornography on city time on city computers. Channel 9 found out about the pornographic emails because of a lawsuit filed against the police department by five officers.
The lawsuit claims the five officers were sexually harassed at work and, on top of that, they faced retaliation for reporting it.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA at 8:20 AM EST
The Full story: WFTV.Com
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A porn trial without dirty pictures - That's what's playing out in a courtroom on the 17th floor of the federal courthouse in Center City, where a drawn-out First Amendment case is being heard.
At issue is the Children Online Protection Act, or COPA, a law Congress enacted in 1998 but never enforced as it bounced all the way up to the Supreme Court and back down again.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, USA at 6:14 AM EST
The Full story: Philadelphia Inquirer
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Singapore plans to decriminalize oral and anal sex for adult heterosexuals under legislation unveiled Thursday, but the government said sex between homosexuals will remain banned.
The government posted proposed amendments to the city-state's Penal Code — the result of a three-year review — on a Web site, and Singaporeans have a month to offer feedback. The Ministry of Home Affairs will consider the input before presenting the proposals to Parliament early next year.
Posted by Super Sub in: Asia, Legal Issues, Gay Issues at 5:48 AM EST
The Full story: International Herald Tribune
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He may not be a model neighbor, but a middle-aged Manhattan man with a thing for younger women draws the line at implications that he beds underage beauties.
And a judge apparently agrees - giving the green light to a defamation suit by model manager and attorney William Unroch...
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA at 5:26 AM EST
The Full story: New York Daily News
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Salt Lake City - Two suspects were taken to jail and charged with numerous counts of dealing and distributing pornographic material in St. George.
St. George Police served a search warrant on a business and confiscated numerous items of pornographic material available for sale to the public.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA at 4:31 AM EST
The Full story: KUTV.Com
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Oral and anal sex in private between consenting heterosexual adults would be legalised under Singapore's first major penal code amendments in 22 years, the government said on Wednesday.
Singapore, which in recent years has gradually eased social restrictions that have given it a straight-laced reputation, said it had conducted a comprehensive review of sexual offences in the penal code, which was enacted in 1871 and received its last significant amendments in 1984.
Posted by Super Sub in: Society & Culture, Asia, Legal Issues at 8:44 AM EST
The Full story: Mail And Guardian
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A Stafford grand jury yesterday indicted a county sex shop and its two owners on charges of violating the state's obscenity laws.
Pheromoans Inc., Meagan J. Pacheco, 26, and Lesley O. Mason, 27, are each charged with three misdemeanor counts. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 12 months in jail and a $2,500 fine.
Pheromoans Inc. is in a building in Doc Stone Commons off Garrisonville Road in North Stafford. It is billed as a lingerie boutique, but battery-operated sex toys and adult DVDs also are sold from the business.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Legal Issues, USA at 5:42 AM EST
The Full story: The Free-Lance Star
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Like her world tour, her sexy jeans and her shopping spree, Britney Spears' lawsuit has been deemed outrageous.
A judge has dismissed the pop star's libel suit against Us Weekly, ruling that there was no way that Spears could win her claim than an article referring to an alleged sex tape featuring her and hubby Kevin Federline was defamatory.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, USA, Celebrity Sex at 5:00 AM EST
The Full story: E! Online
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The City of Johannesburg is investigating a number of its employees for downloading and emailing pornography, The Star newspaper reported on Monday.
Gabu Tugwana, director of communications for the City, confirmed the internal audit had investigated about 200 cases.
Posted by Super Sub in: Legal Issues, Africa at 5:09 AM EST
The Full story: iafrica.com
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A Company said today it was disappointed to be ordered to reinstate an employee it sacked for viewing and storing pornography on his work laptop computer.
In May, NSW Industrial Relations Commissioner John Murphy rejected an appeal by Richard Budlong, 56, for unfair dismissal by NCR Australia, over his breach of the company's code of conduct.
Posted by Super Sub in: Australia, Legal Issues at 4:54 AM EST
The Full story: Daily Telegraph
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