Re:Prostitution is not illegal... (Score 1)

Read the lawsuit, it says nothing about his jurisdiction other than to recount his submitted evidence. The sheriff is asking the court to grant a permanent injuction preventing Craigslist from "engaging in the conduct complained of herein". No mention of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, etc.

Further, in the next point, the lawsuit asks the court to order Craigslist to comply with federal, state and municipal laws related to facilitating prostitution. Fine and well, but what that would essentially mean is that for every country/state/city specific page that Craigslist has, they'd be required to specifically research what is allowed and what isn't. If you order them to do this regarding prostitution, why not regarding the sale of any service or good? After all, there are plenty of laws on the books regulating those as well, wildly different in different areas of the world/US/state.

A silly example could be made - we all know the antiquated laws different bodies of law have on the books, or even some very specific small-town regulations. Say Madeuptown, Madeupstate has a municipal law preventing someone from owning more than 1 horse. If that person now buys 2 horses on Craigslist, it would follow that Craigslist is in violation of the court order brought on by sheriff's lawsuit (assuming he had won).