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...Abilene - terminus of the great longhorn cattle drives, boyhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower - fought back. Some folks anyway. Citizens launched Operation Daniel, named for the biblical prophet who was thrown into a lion's den but somehow tamed the beasts. As lonely truckers pulled into the parking lot, protesters met them waving signs that threatened, "Think Again or We Report." They vowed to send the tag numbers of porn-purchasing drivers to corporate employers. Wal-Mart soon put out the word to its drivers to steer clear. (See TIME's archive: Eisenhower in Abilene...
...name, location, phone number and operating hours could be on the sign. Stores had until July 1 of this year to comply. But days before the deadline, a federal judge in Topeka blocked the law from taking effect until she could consider a challenge brought by Lion's Den. The store said the law placed improper restraints on commercial free speech...
...Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "Given the state's budget challenges, it would be fiscally irresponsible to continue litigation that has very little chance of success," Six said, adding that his decision would prevent Kansans from being "on the hook" to pay the fees of Lion's Den's lawyers. Under Kansas' agreement with Lion's Den, the state will not enforce the law, and in exchange the store can't recoup its legal costs from the Kansas treasury. (Read a 2005 TIME article about when porn was chic...
...Michael Murray, a Cleveland lawyer for Lion's Den, says it was "preposterous" to think Six could have defended "a statute doomed to failure." The case could have easily cost Kansas $150,000 or more to pursue, Murray says. Six's office notes that former Kansas attorney general Phil Kline once spent more than $1 million in state tax dollars defending a legal opinion on requiring health-care providers to report teenage sex; he lost the case...
Operation Daniel's Cosby says adult chains threaten small towns with bankruptcy if they put up a fight. Now the state's "top cop" has bailed too, he says. "The attorney general flinched at the roar of the Lion's Den," he says. Cosby, who also heads the Kansas City office of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families, predicts that limits on sex-shop advertising could be won in the future with the right argument. He says there are constitutional zoning restrictions for sexually oriented businesses, and liquor and tobacco face advertising limits. Under this scenario...