Minnesota Court of Appeals overturns revenge porn law Tuesday, December 24, 2019
MPR News
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a state law that makes it illegal to disseminate private sexual images of someone without their permission, arguing it’s overbroad and a violation of First Amendment rights.
The ruling Monday upends the state’s 2016 law addressing revenge porn and has supporters pushing for a review by the state Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel found the revenge porn law not only covered situations where someone knowingly posts explicit images of someone without their permission, but also situations where someone might not know the other individual did not consent to its publication and “did not cause or intend to cause a specified harm.”
Read more at: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/12/23/minnesota-court-of-appeals-overturns-revenge-porn-law
Read the court's opinion at: http://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/Appellate/Court%20of%20Appeals/Standard%20opinions/OPa190576-122319.pdf