FC: Supreme Court disses COPA anti-erotica law, sends to appeals ct

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 08:28:25 PDT

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    Photos of ACLU attorneys, rivals after oral arguments in November 2001:
    http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/copa-supreme-court-nov01.html
    
    Politech archive on COPA:
    http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=copa
    
    -Declan
    
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    http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52478,00.html
    
        8:20 a.m. May 13, 2002 PDT
        WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court partly upheld a law intended to shield
        children from online smut, but said Monday there are unresolved free
        speech questions that prevent the law from taking effect now.
    
        The American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the law as
        unconstitutional, claiming that in protecting children the Child
        Online Protection Act also violates the rights of adults to see or buy
        what they want on the Internet.
    
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