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Nursing Home Law Blog
Lobbyist for Large Tennessee nursing home chain, National Health Care, arrested for patronizing prostituion
Gerald Coggin, a prominent Tennessee lobbyist for Murfreesboro-based National Health Care (NHC), has been arrested and charged with patronizing prostitution. Coggin recently led NHC's unsuccessful effort to pass a law…
The Faculty Lounge
Like A Virgin? We Sell That Here!
A few days ago, an anonymous 19-year-old New Zealand student offered her virginity to the highest bidder on the Web site www.ineed.co.nz under the name "Unigirl," saying she would use…
Sentencing Law and Policy
No happy ending in sentencing appeal by defendant involved in (illegal) happy endings
Main December 24, 2009No happy ending in sentencing appeal by defendant involved in (illegal) happy endingsA panel of the Seventh Circuit issued an interesting little sentencing opinion yesterday in US…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Deep thoughts (and a great title) concerning drug and vice crimes
Main December 19, 2009Deep thoughts (and a great title) concerning drug and vice crimesThis article available via SSRN attracted my attention based just on its title, which is "Sex, Drugs,…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Male Prostitution Legalized in Nevada
Salon.com: Nevada legalizes male prostitution, by Kate Harding: But a lobbyist fears equal opportunity will destroy the brothel industry On Friday, one of Nevada's most important industries took a big steptoward…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Ninth Circuit clarifies limit on restitution award in illegal prostitution case
Main December 3, 2009Ninth Circuit clarifies limit on restitution award in illegal prostitution case An interesting little opinion today from the Ninth Circuit in US v. Kuo, No. 08-10314 (9th…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Sex With Informant Voids Prostitution Case”
Main November 9, 2009"Sex With Informant Voids Prostitution Case" The title of this post is the headline from this lengthy new report from The Legal Intelligencer. Here is how the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
For Children Who Flee or Are Kicked out of their Homes, Sex Is Often the Cost of Survival
NY Times: For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival, by Ian Urbina:Running in the Shadows. . . Most of the estimated 1.6 million children who run away each yearreturn home within a…
The Right Coast
Legalized ProstitutionMike Rappaport
Social conservative Robert George and Women Studies Professor Donna Hughes make a very curious argument against decriminalized prostitution at NRO. The evil they point to is coercion of the sex…
Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer
De Facto Legalization of Prostitution?
Mike, of Crime and Federalism, reads an article about sex trafficking, “San Francisco Is A Major Center For International Crime Networks That Smuggle And Enslave”, and proclaims: I'd always said,…