IP: Philadelphia judges OK library filtering case for 2002 trial

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45483,00.html
>Kid Porn Bill Slogs to Court
>3:00 p.m. July 23, 2001 PDT
>
>PHILADELPHIA -- A free-speech challenge to a new U.S. law designed to
>protect children from pornography on the Internet may go to trial next
>February despite a government bid to get the case dismissed, a judge
>suggested on Monday. [...]
>
>The Justice Department, which is representing the Federal
>Communications Commission and the Institute of Museum and Library
>Services in the suit, asked a federal court in Philadelphia to dismiss
>the case saying the challenge is without merit. But on Monday, the
>U.S. appellate judge who heads a special three-judge panel set up to
>oversee the case, said the constitutional questions raised by the
>lawsuit appear too numerous and too complex to be examined without a
>full-blown trial, which was tentatively scheduled for Feb. 14, 2002.
>
>[...]



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