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Backpage.com wins injunction vs Chicago sheriff over adult ads

November 30, 2015December 3, 2015 admin card-companies, circuit-judge, first-amendment, free-speech, greek, preventing-even, richard-posner, said-promotes, the-hackers

A federal appeals court on Monday ordered an injunction blocking the Cook County, Illinois, sheriff from pursuing any effort to stop credit card companies from handling transactions for Backpage.com, a classified ad website that the sheriff said promotes sex trafficking. The 7th U.S.