TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 3, 2023

Memphis-based federal Judge Thomas Parker late Friday imposed a temporary restraining order on implementation of the state’s new law limiting drag show performances, the Commercial Appeal reports. The law was set to go into effect on Saturday. Parker heard three hours of arguments on Thursday and on Friday said the law as written is too vague. A law is unconstitutionally vague if individuals of “common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application," he wrote. The decision came in a suit filed by Friends of George's, a Memphis-based LGBTQ theatre group.