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AVN looks back at the year in porn. CHATSWORTH, Calif. - When the clock strikes midnight in the San Fernando Valley this evening, the adult industry won't be sorry to say goodbye to 2008. This was a year of losses, both human and economic, a year that saw the final punishing strikes in the Bush Admi
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The former First Amendment lawyer took his own life in the wake of a legal battle over his Lake County, Fla., strip club. ORLANDO, Fla. - David Wasserman, the well-known former adult industry attorney turned strip-club owner, committed suicide at his home on Thursday. He was 52. Wasserman died of a
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The Lake County Sheriff's Department sent a masked man to raid the Fantasy Gentlemen's Club in Orlando. ORLANDO - The Lake County Sheriff's Department raided the Fantasy Gentlemen's Club here last Friday night, and the boys in blue were even nice enough to call owner David Wasserman, a former First
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David Wasserman, the First Amendment attorney turned nightclub owner, and former board member of the Free Speech Coalition, was shot in the chest on Dec. 19 by a thief seeking the club's receipts – but miraculously, Wasserman was nearly unharmed. ORLANDO – David Wasserman, the First Amendment attorn
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The Orlando Weekly was served notice on racketeering charges (RICO) last week for including ads for escort agencies. MBI (Metropolitan Bureau of Investigations) agents also arrested three of the papers’ sales managers on charges of aiding and abett ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Weekly was served notic
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The Florida city has approved an agreement with the owner of an adult video store that would make the business leave its current location after three years. The legal settlement, approved four to one by the New Smyrna Beach City Commission on Tuesday night, would require Intimate Moments Boutique to
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Partner Jimmy Gross reveals that growing Phoenix-based ISP BT Productions started out of a home office. "Then we bought an office building two years ago," he says, "actually, an old house that we converted into office space - it was cheaper. Now we're moving out of this building because we have a 6,
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A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall? "John Ashcroft will be the prince of darkness for the adult Internet industry," proclaims attorney Greg Piccionelli of the L.A. law firm Brull Piccionelli Sarno Braun & Vradenburgh (www.brupic.com). The First Amendment stalwart made this declaration as a seminar panelist at
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Last week Florida Attorney David Wasserman wrote on this site: "On Monday, May 22, 2000 CBS's news show 48 Hours is doing a story on our Polk County internet obscenity case, the first in the nation. They have dedicated 2 out of 3 segments of the show to the never ending case. It was settled once wit
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Attorney David Wasserman reports: The United States Supreme Court announced its decision this [Monday] morning in the case of United States, et. al. v. Playboy Entertainment Group finding restrictions on cable channels "primarily dedicated to sexually-oriented programming" either to "fully scramble
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"All politicians are pieces of shit, I hope they all fucking rot and die. It's a useless system, filled with hypocrisy. I loathe everything about America and politics, but it's the only thing going." - Al Goldstein, publisher, SCREW Okay, so we all know Al's basically right. But in comparison to the
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The following have been named to the Freech Speech Coalition Board of Directors: Al Bloom from M&M Sales; Allan B. Gelbard, First Amendment Attorney, Mark Kernes, AVN legal editor; Gloria Leonard, Free Speech Coalition president; William Margold of PAW, Carol Queen, writer/editor; Scott Tucker, pres
