The Tennessean: “A federal judge in Tennessee has issued a temporary restraining order against the impending “drag ban” after siding with Friends of George’s, a Memphis-based LGBTQ theatre group that filed suit against the state.
Friends of George’s filed the lawsuit on March 27; the case advanced rapidly through federal court. Judge Thomas Parker heard three hours of arguments Thursday, and agreed the law as written is too vague, and leaves the door open for differing outcomes based a person’s assessment of what is, and isn’t, obscene.
“A law is unconstitutionally vague if individuals of “common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application,” Parker wrote in the 15-page decision.
The order will be in place for at least 14 days, though an extension is possible. The new law was to go into effect Saturday.”