BookFinder.com’s a member of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), which worked with the Media Coalition to overturn an Indiana law that might force most local booksellers to register their inventories with the state.
Per Publisher’s Weekly:
“The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression took a victory yesterday when a federal judge dismissed an Indiana law requiring retailers to register ‘sexually explicit’ material with the state…Judge Sarah Evans Baker…said in her ruling that the law has too vast a reach ‘as written.’ She elaborated: ‘A romance novel sold at a drugstore, a magazine offering sex advice in a grocery store checkout line, an R-rated DVD sold by a video rental shop, a collection of old Playboy magazines sold by a widow at a garage sale—all incidents of unquestionably lawful, non-obscene, non-pornographic material being sold to adults—would appear to necessitate registration under the statute.’ Ultimately, Judge Baker said that ‘such a vague mandate will be unduly burdensome’ and ‘will have a chilling effect on expression.’”
Read the full Publisher’s Weekly article…
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