Three former prostitutes and one man with a disability are suing California’s attorney general for violating their constitutional rights by enforcing the state’s prostitution law, reports VICE.
The anonymous plaintiffs are represented by the Erotic Service Providers Legal, Education, and Research Project, which filed a lawsuit.
According to VICE, the three former prostitutes are suing because they want to want to work as prostitutes again but fear arrest and prosecution; the man with a disability wants to hire prostitutes.
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“Together, they claim that enforcement of prostitution laws violates their constitutional rights to privacy, free speech, substantive due process right to earn a living, and freedom of association,” writes VICE. “They are asking for a declaration that California’s prostitution statute is unconstitutional, an order prohibiting the defendants from enforcing the prostitution statute, and attorney fees.”
The state can now either make a motion to dismiss the case, or allow it to go to trial.
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