A law that would protect children from "harmful" material on the Internet remains enjoined after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia agreed with a lower court last week that it violates the First Amendment.
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/25/2000 8:00:00 PM
A law that would protect children from "harmful" material on the Internet remains enjoined after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia agreed with a lower court last week that it violates the First Amendment. "We will affirm the District Court's grant of a preliminary injunction because we are confident that the ACLU's attack on [the law's] constitutionality is likely to succeed on the merits," wrote Circuit Court Judge Leonard Garth. The law, which Congress passed in 1998, has never been enforced because the District Court enjoined it soon after its passage at the request of the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition it is representing in the case.
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