Author: First Amendment Lawyers Association

FALA filed this amicus brief in United States v. Stevens (No. 08-769) urging the Supreme Court to affirm the Third Circuit’s ruling that 18 U.S.C. § 48 — a federal law criminalizing depictions of animal cruelty — is facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Drawing on its members’ half-century of experience litigating obscenity cases, FALA…

FSC and FALA filed this joint amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a challenge to Alabama’s ban on the sale of sexual devices. The brief argues that the constitutional right to sexual privacy recognized in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) extends to adults’ choices to use such devices in private, and…