FC: Philadelphia judges OK library filtering case for 2002 trial

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Politech archive on CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act):
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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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