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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