Citing it as too broad, a federal judge has thrown out an Indiana law that was about to take effect requiring bookstores and other retailers to register with the state and pay a $250 fee if they want to sell sexually explicit material. The Indianapolis Museum of Art was among the plaintiffs who sued to block enforcement of the law.
”A romance novel sold at a drugstore, a magazine offering sex advice in a grocery store checkout line, an R-rated DVD sold by a video rental shop, a collection of old Playboy magazines sold by a widow at a garage sale … would appear to necessitate registration under the statute,” wrote U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker wrote. Equally problematic is discerning exactly what constitutes “sexually explicit.”
The art museum’s CEO, Maxwell Anderson, called the ruling a victory for the First Amendment.

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