More importantly, response to such a warrant would generally be going and pulling the appropriate documents out, making copies, and handing them to the officers (or submitting them to the court). It means that for all intents and purposes, the records are secure and cannot be reviewed by authorities outside of the scope of their warrant.

Moreover, this will pretty much strike down the silly office hours concept. The only reason to keep office hours was to be available for random inspections. Now that there are not random inspections, office hours are moot. You don’t have to keep office hours to get served any other warrant.

Finally, i would have to say that this would very much limit the potential for inspections. However, it might bring up (for US based businesses) the issue of where their 2257 documents / office is located. For those who are using a mailboxes etc as their 2257 address, it is an area where law enforcement could take action. Failure to meet those parts of the law would not be subject to a warrant, as a law enforcement official could easily spot a mail drop location that has no real office or records storage and take action from there.

It seems pretty much the law is neutered, just in time for the Republican’ts to come in and try to enforce morality again.

My take is that the First Amendment challenges will struggle with the stuff about FSC & photog association standing. The Fourth Amendment argument worked to force notice on 2257 compliance inspections but there was too much upfront about plaintiffs experts and overriding governmental interests etc to think it will go away.