From May It Please the Court:
Practicing law makes it difficult to remember holidays, especially nice ones like Valentine’s Day and the end-of-the-year “Winter Holiday,” as my staff now lists December 25 on our Firm Holiday Calendar. It’s tough because we’re always fighting and arguing with opposing counsel, filing motions with the court and litigating cases.
But try as I may, I had a difficult time finding a feel-good post to write about for the holiday, and the best I could do comes from a post on How Appealing. It was this sentence from this Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that grabbed my attention: “This case comes to us for the third time, arising from a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Alabama Code prohibiting the commercial distribution of devices “primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.”
Plus it was filed on February 14. Intentional? Of course, especially with that dry, but nonetheless scintillating come-on from the court.
You don’t have to be a lawyer to see the humor in that introduction to the case. Rather than prolong your curiosity, let’s cut to the quick here. The Alabama legislature’s statute barring sex toys withstood the constitutional challenge brought by the ACLU on behalf of those who want to sell sex toys in Alabama and those who want to buy them. The court upheld the statute on the basis that the Alabama legislature can legitimately regulate public morality.
And I thought you used them in the bedroom. Silly me.
LOL, really good post.
BTW - thanks for the show_top_commentators tip. Worked like a charm
Be in touch,
Gili
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lJWg3HXpHc
Published Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Writer, former Alabama resident mocks AG’s sex-toy stance via YouTube
By Dana Beyerle
Montgomery Bureau Chief
MONTGOMERY | With an Internet connection and a little YouTube know-how, anyone can ridicule a high-ranking public official.
Attorney General Troy King found that out Tuesday.
Alabama native and writer Steve Elliott, who now lives in Washington state, posted a video on site mocking King for defending a state law prohibiting sex toys in Alabama.
“That’s what I’m trying to do, make him look ridiculous, because that’s how he’s making the state of Alabama look,” Elliott said Tuesday.
The 30-second video is a montage that uses King’s singing “duet” with the late Johnny Cash as a soundtrack. The video includes an image of Cash making an offensive hand gesture.
The Mobile Press-Register reported Sunday that King created a CD last year in which he added his vocals to a little-known recording by Cash of the song “My Elusive Dreams,” which was never released. King distributed about 25 copies of his recording as a Christmas gift, the Press-Register reported.
Elliott said he was inspired to create the YouTube video after reading a blog written by one-time third-party gubernatorial candidate and marijuana advocate Loretta Nall, in which she described sending King an inflatable pig sex aid last year.
This is so funny , I watched the video and i was laughing my socks off got to be the funnest one ive seen for a while keep up the good work. Vote alabama i will.
Christina