Originally Posted by Joe Obenberger

The third link takes you to an article I wrote in the new edition of xbiz World that lays it all out pretty directly along with what it means. I guess that there is no way of direct linking the article, so you have to navigate to page 18.

This really is potentially an earthquake.

All of the legal justifications that governments in the US have used for the past fifty years to regulate adult businesses in a special way, different from other businesses - from the DOJ down to cities, town, and villages, - from zoning and licensing and hours of operation to signage to Section 2257 - all of it - was called into question by an obscure Supreme Court decision about church signs this Summer - and DOJ has officially put the issue on the judge's bench in Philadelphia. A great, great deal is at stake. It is possible that the obscure decision from the Arizona church just might, maybe, catastrophically affect the way the government can treat adult businesses differently from other businesses. It is hard to imagine that all of that would be overturned, changing the landscape, but the DOJ has now inserted that issue for the first time in this litigation since the FSC case was filed in 2009 - and the case is a potential hop, skip and jump to the Supreme Court. It gets REALLY interesting now, in a way that can affect the entire adult industry, including most especially brick and mortar. Do the old cases, like Renton, survive Reed v. Gilbert? That's what the Third Circuit is asking.