ANGOLA — The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has filed a notice to appeal a Steuben County criminal case that was dismissed because a local court ruled Indiana’s revenge pornography law was unconstitutional.

According to KPC Media, the case stems from an incident that occurred in March when a Trine University student allegedly took a video of an intimate act between himself and another Trine student at a fraternity house, then showed the video to other individuals. The student, Conner Katz, 21, Coldwater, Michigan, was charged in March with distribution of an intimate image, but the Class A misdemeanor case was dismissed on October 2nd by Magistrate Randy Coffey in Steuben Circuit Court on “grounds that Indiana’s revenge porn law violated U.S. and Indiana constitutional rights to free speech”, according to a report from KPC Media.

The incident is also the subject of a civil lawsuit filed in Steuben Circuit Court in which the woman depicted in the video alleges to have had her reputation damaged by distribution of the video.

A hearing in the case has been scheduled for Monday before Circuit Court Judge Allen Wheat.

Because the case is on appeal, it is possible that the civil suit will be stayed until the criminal case is finalized.