United States Sixth Circuit

The recordkeeping requirements of 18 U.S.C. section 2257, placed upon producers of images of "actual sexually explicit conduct", are facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment for overbreadth.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/23/2007
• Published 10/23/2007

Judges

• Before:  BOGGS, Chief Judge;  KENNEDY, MARTIN, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, MOORE, COLE, CLAY, GILMAN, GIBBONS, ROGERS, SUTTON, COOK, McKEAGUE, GRIFFIN, KETHLEDGE, and WHITE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  J. Michael Murray, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & Devan, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants.  Jonathan F. Cohn, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  J. Michael Murray, Lorraine R. Baumgardner, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & Devan, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants.  Anne Murphy, Thomas M. Bondy, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.