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Ashcroft v. ACLU No. 00-1293

ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al. No. 00-1293

No. 00-1293 | 2002-05-13

ASHCROFT, ATTORNEY GENERAL v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al.

certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the third circuit

No. 00-1293. Argued November 28, 2001--Decided May 13, 2002

In Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U. S. 844, this Court found that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA)--Congress' first attempt to protect children from exposure to pornographic material on the Internet--ran afoul of the First Amendment in its regulation of indecent transmissions and the display of patently offensive material. That conclusion was based, in part, on the crucial consideration that the CDA's breadth was...