More hot case news from the United States. According to the Associated Press (AP), the respected newswire, the US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to the state of Alabama's ban on the sale of sex toys.


Thus ends a nine-year battle. Or has it? 'An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom,' the AP reported. 'Sherri Williams said she plans to sue again, this time on free-speech grounds.'



In a strong candidate for litigation quote of the year, she added: 'My motto has been: they are going to have to pry this vibrator from by cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up.'