In the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
The first day of the Nitke trial (or evidentiary hearing, if you prefer) was very interesting. It's the first time I've seen a 28 USC 2284 three-judge panel. The first day featured mainly witnesses who were afraid of being prosecuted for publishing sexually explicit material on-line. All of them described knowing personally people whose lives were severely disrupted by obscenity prosecutions or threatened prosecutions. It seems that pornography tears families apart -- when the Justice Department prosecutes publishers.
The first day also featured testimony from Prof. Arthur Danto, who described Barbara Nitke's photography as "high art". (See also Nitke's excerpt from his written testimony.)
[This entry has been corrected.]
