The government's legitimate interest in stopping child pornography trumps the burden imposed on pornography producers by a law requiring them to keep records of the ages of their models and actors, a federal judge held for the second time.
U.S. District Senior Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania held an eight-day bench trial last month in a case that was remanded to him after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last year vacated part of his original opinion dismissing the challenge to two federal statutes brought by producers of pornographic material on First and Fourth amendment grounds. The Third Circuit held that the plaintiffs, led by a trade association for the adult entertainment industry called the Free Speech Coalition, should be able to conduct discovery and develop a record.
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