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The first implication explicitly underlies the feminist anti-pornography laws passed in Minneapolis and Indianapolis, which allow a woman to file a claim of discrimination against material that depicted women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or...
Even after this weekend's competition, however, the season continues for the divers. The U.S. Senior National qualifiers take place in the second week of April in Pittsburgh, with the actual championships the following week in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis case may spell the end of attempts to attack porn as sex discrimination, a tactic that in recent years had the unusual effect of allying some left-leaning feminists and conservative moralists. The idea was developed by Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon, a visiting scholar at Stanford, and Andrea...
But the problem facing the Justices was that laws aimed at the content of pornography inevitably restrict expression, and the repellent and the worthwhile can be so closely braided that no amount of linguistic hairsplitting can untangle them. Drafted with the assistance of MacKinnon and Dworkin, the Indianapolis ordinance targeted...
Without hearing arguments or issuing an opinion, the high court voted 6 to 3 to uphold that decision. (The dissenters wanted to hear arguments.) In the appeals-court ruling, Judge Frank Easterbrook, a Reagan appointee, agreed that depictions of subordination perpetuate subordination. But, he wrote, this did not permit Indianapolis...