Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Sale of Sex Toys
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A federal appeals court in Birmingham upheld a 1998 law banning the sale of sex toys in the state, ruling that the Constitution didn’t include a right to sexual privacy.
In a 2-1 decision overturning a lower court, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals said the state had a right to police the sale of devices that could be sexually stimulating.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented merchants and users who sued to overturn the law, had asked the appeals court to rule that the Constitution included a right to sexual privacy that the ban on sex-toy sales would violate.
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