Dial-a-Porn Company Acts to Prevent Ban

WASHINGTON — A company that provides “dial-a-porn” services and an anonymous group of “consenting adults” have filed lawsuits to prevent a new law banning pornographic telephone messages from taking effect July 1. The suits were filed in federal courts in Los Angeles by an affiliate of one of the country’s largest dial-a-porn providers and in New York by a group calling itself “Consenting Adults Telephone Rights Assn.” The government has agreed not to enforce the law until July 25 at the earliest, after a California federal judge reviews the case and decides whether to put the law on hold temporarily pending further hearings, said Justice Department sources who spoke on the condition that they not be identified.