Legal Opinion

Free Speech Coal., Inc. v. Sessions

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided August 3, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 09-4607Published

1Opinion of the CourtBaylson, J.

I. Nature of this Action

This action, whose lengthy proceedings have been summarized in many prior opinions in this case, is a challenge to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2257 and 2257A, and their implementing regulations, 28 C.F.R. 75 et seq. , by numerous Plaintiffs involved in various ways with the production of adult pornography and sexually explicit imagery. The Third Circuit described the many Plaintiffs *606challenging the Statutes and regulations, and the many types of their explicit speech, as follows:

Plaintiffs are Free Speech Coalition, Inc., "a trade association representing more than 1,000 member…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. United States v. SalernoSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  2. Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
  3. United States v. RainesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  4. United States v. MendozaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  5. Gonzales v. CarhartSupreme Court of the United States · 2007

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