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 Mar 12, 2010

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/view_subpage.php?pk_id=0000010354

http://www.ktvn.com/global/story.asp?s=12130046

(AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld a Nevada law that bars legal brothels that operate in some of the state's rural areas from advertising in Las Vegas, Reno and other places where prostitution is illegal.

Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto Thursday hailed the ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in San Francisco, while a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada promised to appeal.

The laws had been challenged by the ACLU, a Nye County brothel called the Shady Lady Ranch and two newspapers: the High Desert Advocate and Las Vegas City Life.

Prostitution is illegal in Clark and Washoe counties -- which include Las Vegas and Reno -- and three other Nevada counties. Ten Nevada counties authorize prostitution by local ordinance.

The 9th Circuit panel reversed a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge James Mahan in Nevada that two 1979 state laws prohibiting brothel advertising in counties where prostitution is illegal were overly broad and unconstitutional.