The court sided with the plaintiff, saying the law unfairly targets drag performers.
The day before the nation’s first anti-drag law was set to go into effect, a federal judge temporarily blocked it for violating the First Amendment.on Friday. The plaintiff, a nonprofit organization based in Memphis that produces performances featuring drag, as well as comedy sketches and plays, filed a motion to temporarily block the law last Monday.
“In the meantime, Plaintiff has to try to sell tickets while deciding whether it should add a previously unnecessary age restriction, cancel the show, or risk criminal prosecution,” the decision reads. “These are not trifling issues for a theatre company — certainly not in the free, civil society we hold our country to be. Defendants’ approach would have Plaintiff, and those similarly situated in Tennessee, eat the proverbial mushroom to find out whether it is poisonous.
“Does a citizen’s private residence count? How about a camping ground at a national park?” the decision reads. “What if a minor browsing the worldwide web from a public library views an ‘adult cabaret performance’?”
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