[IP] Supreme Court won't revive online content law

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Susan Brynteson <susanb@udel.edu>
Date: January 21, 2009 2:10:50 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Supreme Court won't revive online content law

You win some, you lose some.  This one we won!

  Susan Brynteson





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Susan Brynteson
Vice Provost and May Morris Director of Libraries
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE  19717-5267

Phone:  302-831-2231
Fax:    302-831-1046
Email:  susanb@udel.edu


Supreme Court won't revive online content law


WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has lost its final attempt to revive a
federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other
objectionable content on the Internet.



The Supreme Court, in an order Wednesday, said it won't consider
reviving the Child Online Protection Act, which lower federal courts
struck down as unconstitutional. The law has been embroiled in court
challenges since it passed in 1998 and never took effect.



Full story at:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQBB5KuH04ldwSqw_2t8YhHpZKIQD95RJMK80











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