US Justices Reject Pornography Law

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to consider attempts to revive a 1998 law intended to protect children from Internet pornography, ending a legal conflict dating to the administration of President Bill Clinton.Without comment, the court handed down an order declining to take the case of Mukasey v. A.C.L.U., No. 08-565. The administration of former President George W. Bush, through Attorney General Michael Mukasey, had asked the justices to review the law. The American Civil Liberties Union has been a leading foe of the statute.
http://nytimes.com/2009/01/22/washington/22scotus.htmlSupreme Court deals death blow to antiporn law
The U.S. Department of Justice has been trying since 1998 to convince courts that a federal antiporn law targeting sexually explicit Web sites was constitutional.No longer. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected prosecutors’ last-ditch defense of the Child Online Protection Act, meaning that the law will not be enforced.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10147171-38.htmlSupreme Court Ends Government’s Ten-Year Quest for Internet Censorship Standard [news release]
The Supreme Court Wednesday dealt the final blow to the government’s 10-year campaign to place onerous restrictions on Internet content. The Court declined to hear the government’s appeal of lower court rulings that declared the Child Online Protective Act as unconstitutional.
http://cdt.org/press/20090121press.phpSupreme Court rejects federal bid to restore Internet child safety law [IDG]
The U.S. Supreme Court today again refused to resurrect a federal law that required Web sites containing “material harmful to minors” to implement age-based access restrictions, presumably ending a 10-year fight over whether the law violated free-speech rights on the Internet.The court declined to hear an appeal that was filed by former President George W. Bush’s administration, asking the justices to overturn a lower court’s ruling against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act of 1998. In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit struck down COPA for the third time, saying that the law was a vague and overly broad attack on free speech.
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http://computerworld.com.au/article/273891/Justices refuse to reconsider law restricting Internet porn
The Supreme Court has blocked further consideration of a federal law designed to keep sexual material from underage users of the Web.The justices without comment Wednesday rejected an appeal from the federal government to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), passed by Congress in 1998. The high court and subsequent federal courts said the law — which has never taken effect — had serious free speech problems.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/21/supreme.court.reject/Online pornography law appeal denied
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Wednesday a ruling that a federal law designed to keep Internet pornography away from children violated constitutional free-speech rights.
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http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3797731us: Anti-porn online law dies quietly in Supreme Court [AP]
A federal law intended to restrict children’s access to Internet pornography died quietly Wednesday at the Supreme Court, more than 10 years after Congress overwhelmingly approved it.
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