Legal Opinion
Backpage.com, LLC v. Thomas Dart
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 30, 2015No. 15-3047PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Backpage.com (we’ll call it just Back-page). provides an online forum for classified ads sectioned by subject matter, such as rentals, real estate, jobs, and, among still others, “adult.” The adult section in turn is subdivided into escorts, body rubs, strippers and strip clubs, dom[ination] and fetish, ts (transsexual escorts), male escorts, phone [sex], and adult jobs (jobs related to services offered in other adult categories, whether or not the jobs are sexual — not every employee of a brothel is a sex worker).
The Sheriff of Cook County, Tom Dart, has embarked on a…
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