British porn mastermind fights US Government

Stuart Lawley is fighting a court battle to retrieve the documents he says would prove his case. Out-Law.com notes that Lawley made dotcom millions with Web design and hosting firm Oneview.net which was floated then sold before the first Internet crash, and has bank-rolled the seven-year proposal to have a top level domain for pornography. His firm, ICM Registry, was awarded the right to operate the domain, but contractual wrangling is more about the conservative Bush administration\'s connections to the religious right than they are about the contract itself. Lawley said that the US Department of Commerce\'s view of the proposal changed, which filtered down to ICANN. He said that he obtained some government documents under freedom of information legislation outlining parts of his case but that crucial elements were blanked out. Full Out-Law.com report