Big First Amendment Win in United States v. Stevens0

• Media Violence & Bias
• April 20, 2010

Originally published on Volokh.com At issue: a federal statute bans commercials depictions of “animal cruelty,” namely a depiction “in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed,” if killing or other action violates the law where the “the creation, sale, or possession takes place.” The statute would therefore outlaw the sale in