I will be covering the trial (though I may not stay for the entire two weeks) starting tomorrow in Philadelphia. It's at the federal courthouse at 601 Market St., courtroom 16-A, starts at 9:15 am and of course is open to the public. Politech archive on CIPA (the federal filtering law in question): http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cipa And here's a photo of Bruce Taylor of the National Law Center for Children and Families and some random malcontent six years ago: http://www.mccullagh.org/tmp/taylor.cfp96.jpg -Declan --- From: Emily Whitfield <EWHITFIELDat_private> To: declanat_private, declanat_private Subject: ACLU info on CIPA trial starting Monday Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:38:10 -0500 Hi, Declan. Will we be seeing you at the CIPA trial? I'll be there on Monday and Tuesday. It'll be like old times. Maybe you'll even get in another game of pool with Bruce Taylor. I hope you'll spread the word that the ACLU has created a comprehensive web page with information on the CIPA trial, including a list of daily trial witnesses with bios, expert witness reports, examples of blocked web pages, and of course all the legal papers. We'll be posting trial updates as things progress. You can find the page at: <http://www.aclu.org/features/f032001a.html> And here's our media advisory: Trial Begins Monday in ACLU Challenge to Government Censorship of Internet in Libraries CONTACT: Emily Whitfield, ACLU Nat'l Office (212) 549-2566 or cell phone (917) 686-4542 Stefan Presser, ACLU of PA, (215) 592-1513, ext. 116 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 21, 2002 PHILADELPHIA--In a nine-day trial set to begin on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union will argue that a federal law that forces libraries to censor constitutionally protected speech online is unconstitutional and should be permanently struck down. At issue is the Children's Internet Protection Act, a federal law passed in December 2000 that ties crucial library funding to the mandated use of blocking programs on Internet terminals used by both adults and minors in public libraries. The ACLU will present testimony from librarians, library patrons, website authors and experts on web blocking programs. On Monday, Ginnie Cooper, Director of Multnomah County Public Library in Oregon will testify. On Tuesday, the court will hear from 16-year-old Emma Rood, a patron of the Oregon library, among others. Note: Witnesses will be available for interview only after they have completed their testimony. The ACLU has created a comprehensive web page for the case that includes a list of the daily trial witnesses and their bios, legal papers, expert reports, and examples of wrongly blocked websites, online at http://www.aclu.org/features/f032001a.html The case is Multnomah County Library vs. United States of America, No. 01-CV-1322. Multnomah County and others are represented by the ACLU. The American Library Association has filed a similar challenge on behalf of its members; the two cases have been consolidated by the court and will be heard together by a three-judge panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Who: ACLU attorneys Ann Beeson, Chris Hansen, Stefan Presser and Kevin Bankston, on behalf of libraries, library patrons and website authors. What: Challenge to Children's Internet Protection Act When: Monday, March 25 - Thursday, April 4, 2002; trial begins at 9:15 a.m. on Monday Where: U.S. Courthouse, 601 Market Street (at 6th Street) Philadelphia, PA, in Judge Bartle's courtroom, Room 16-A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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