Since the 1980’s, the war on drugs resulted in stiff minimum-mandatory sentences for drug traffickers caught with boatloads of drugs imported from foreign countries. Somehow the minimum-mandatory drug-trafficking sentences were amended to include as little as seven prescription pain pills.…
I Think therefore I am subject to Arrest
Last month a New York jury found a police officer guilty of crimes relating to his desire to kill and engage in cannibalism. Whether this was a just verdict or not is impossible for us to tell, given that we…
Swinging Richards will the real dick please stand tall
In the past month Benjamin & Aaronson filed two different federal lawsuits against the City of North Bay Village and the City of North Miami Beach. The North Bay Village suit is a traditional lawsuit claiming that the City of…
The Big Catalyst Theory
For those of you who have read our column over the many years that we have been published, you might note that some cases never really seem to end and that the legal process can take a long time. One…
What is “obscene” in Arkansas stays in Arkansas
Last month, James Benjamin from Benjamin & Aaronson, P.A., out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and H. Louis Sirkin from Sirken, Kinsley & Nazzarine out of Cincinnati, Ohio traveled to Forrest City, Arkansas to defend owners of an adult bookstore charged…
John Stagliano Victorious
Last month the adult entertainment industry received a great victory and was able to take a great sigh of relief. The case of the United States v. John Stagliano John Stagliano, Inc. and Evil Angel Productions, Inc. went to trial…
Public Education and the First Amendment
The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press along with other freedoms. Yet, there has always been a conflict between freedom of speech and freedom of the press and our educational system. For example, does freedom…
Cameras in the Courtroom
The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, expression, along with freedom of the press. Since the advent of the electronic media, radio, television and the like have been given by and large the same protections and freedoms. In a venue…
Adult Bookstores
For the past two years we have periodically written to you about the two adult bookstores within the City of Lauderhill, that the City classified as adult establishments and tried to close down. The first establishment, University Video Enterprises, Inc.…
Paul Little a/k/a Max Hardcore
Last month, we had the wonderful opportunity of being co-counsel with H. Louis Sirkin and Jennifer Kinsley from Cincinnati, Ohio and Jeffrey Douglas from Santa Monica, California. Our clients were Paul Little a/k/a Max Hardcore and Max World Entertainment, Inc. …