In the
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
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No. 15-3047
BACKPAGE.COM, LLC,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
THOMAS J. DART, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois,
Defendant-Appellee.
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
No. 15 C 6340 — John J. Tharp, Jr., Judge.
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ARGUED NOVEMBER 13, 2015— DECIDED NOVEMBER 30, 2015
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Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.
POSNER, Circuit Judge. Backpage.com (we’ll call it just
Backpage) provides an online forum for classified ads sectioned by subject matter, such as rentals, real estate, jobs,
and, among still others, “adult.” The adult section in turn is
subdivided into escorts, body rubs, strippers and strip clubs,
dom[ination] and fetish, ts (transsexual escorts), male escorts, phone [sex], and adult jobs (jobs related to services of-