TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 13, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to stop a Senate subpoena of the website Backpage.com for documents related to how the company screens advertisements for signs of sex trafficking, CQ Roll Call reports. Backpage.com will now have turn over business records as part of a Senate investigation. The one-page order does not include any reasoning for the decision or how specific justices voted. Backpage.com opposed the subpoena on First Amendment grounds.