latimes.com - 1/21/2009
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But less than half of parents do so, Bush administration lawyers had argued in an effort to revive the law. Anti-pornography activists said the court's action, coming a day after former President Bush left office, signaled the government's bid to restrict pornography on the Web had come to an ...
latimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Wednesday's meeting was described as a relaxed, get-acquainted
session. It included Roberts, seven associate justices and Vice...
President-elect Joe Biden. The absence of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was at the court Wednesday morning for arguments ...
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Obama, Biden make pre-inaugural visit to the Supreme ...
scotusblog.com - 1/21/2009
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.The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused the federal
government’s request to salvage a six-year-old law seeking to...
ban minors’ access to sexually explicit material on the World Wide Web. Acting on that law for the third time, the ...
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Court won’t save porn law, alters immunity rule
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Court kills COPA
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... The Children Online Protection Act died today at the Supreme Court after an application for certiorari was denied without comment by the full court. The Bush administration had appealed an earlier ruling by the courts that ruled COPA an unconstitutional infringement on free speech for requiring American porn providers to impose a method of ensuring children did not access their sites. Civil libertarians also argued that the law was as ineffective as it was unconstitutional, as it only applied to sites hosted in the US: A 13-year legal drive to shield children from ...
SCOTUS Lets Anti-Porn Law Die
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the LAT: Supreme Court lets Internet porn law die
A long legal drive to shield children from sexually explicit material on the Web ended in failure Wednesday when the Supreme Court let a 10-year-old anti-pornography law die quietly.
In striking down the law on free-speech grounds, the justices said parents could protect their children by installing software filters on their computers.
Anti-pornography activists said the court’s action, coming a day after former President Bush left office, signaled the government’s bid to ...
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... . "It is kind of like going from an Xbox to an Atari," spokesman Bill Burton said. * The Child Online Protection Act has died a quiet death . * If you watched Obama's inaugural address in China, you ...
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