In a pile of impressive words only a lawyer could love, AVN’s Mark Kernes reports that there’s “nothing exciting” going on with the Extreme Associates case. Okay. But it took something like 1340 of them to tell us that.

Kernes, who does the kind of brilliant work that would mentally enfeeble most people, apparently had a conversation with Extreme’s legal counsel H. Louis Sirkin – one word if you count the H.

From what I could translate, Sirkin having spoken to US District Judge Gary Lancaster this week says there are some outstanding motions to deal with in the case, those involving geographic community [Pittsburgh is very nice in the early Fall]; some of the evidentiary issues and alternate trial dates.

But it didn’t sound like any of this was a hot ticket item, according to what Lancaster is saying. Which probably means that the Feds, knowing that it’s taken so long to get to this point of indetermination, now see Rob Black as very small kishkas compared to Max Hardcore and John Stagliano.

As of now Max could go up for 70 years and will be in his 120’s when he gets out and low risk. Stagliano’s trial is set for next year but he’ll give you all the reasons in the world why he’s smarter than Kayden Kross and shouldn’t be bothered with this penny ante nonsense.

So at this stage, it appears like the Feds are merely content to chase the hog back into the tunnel where Black is concerned. At least that’s the way I translate it, but I could be wrong.

“They didn’t really push,” notes Sirkin, including US Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan in the “they” part.

“I can’t think of any other obscenity case that’s gone on as long as this one,” commented attorney and legal scholar Reed Lee.

Well, Reed, not being a scholar I just gave you the reason. Black’s broke. He’s washing paper plates on a Mexican lunch truck. His company screwed the pooch, and no one really gives a rat’s ass.