Within 10 days, the Free Speech Coalition will file a lawsuit challenging the recordkeeping and labeling regulations under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2257 that are due to take effect on June 23.
Veteran First Amendment attorneys H. Louis Sirkin and Paul Cambria, with additional input from more than a dozen of their colleagues, are actively drafting a lawsuit on behalf of the Coalition and other named plaintiffs, which is scheduled to be filed by the end of next week.
"It will be as comprehensive as possible," said Cambria, "designed to address all the major problems we foresee with these regulations."
FSC Executive Director Michelle Freridge sees the action as the latest example of the core benefits that the Coalition provides for its members.
"We feel certain that our constitutional challenge to these onerous regulations will prevail," Freridge predicted. "It was through Free Speech's efforts that the right to employ adults to make adult entertainment was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the CPPA case, and we expect that same court to lift the incredibly expensive and burdensome recordkeeping requirements imposed by these new regulations."
"This is not rational, it's pure hostility; arbitrary rules designed to trap the unwary, just like everybody said," reflected FSC Board chairman Jeffrey Douglas at the Coalition's general membership meeting earlier this month. "[Even with 2257] Traci Lords would have been able to make every movie she made because she had California ID and she had a U.S. passport that were 100 percent valid; fraudulently obtained, but valid. Nothing in this law would prevent that."
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