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IP: Philadelphia judges OK library filtering case for 2002 trial
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:00:57 -0400
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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