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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Alabama’s ban on the sale of sex toys, ending a nine-year legal battle and prompting a warning to store owners to be prepared to clean off their shelves.
The owner of adult stores in north Alabama had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that the law is constitutional.
Sherri Williams, owner of Pleasures stores in Huntsville and Decatur, said she was disappointed to lose, but she plans a new lawsuit attacking the law on First Amendment free speech grounds.
‘‘My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand. I refuse to give up,’’ she said.