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| | | Reno v. ACLU (docket #: 96-511) (1997)
[Findlaw]
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Secondary Link
| Reno v. ACLU
[Legal Information Institute]
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Argument Date
| 03/19/1997 |
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Decided
| 06/26/1997 |
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Supreme Court Vote
| 7-2 |
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Note
| Contrast Justice Stevens' opinion in Reno v. ACLU with his opinion in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978). Contrast it also with the Court's holding in Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. v. U.S. (2000) |
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Supreme Court Ruling
| First Amendment claim sustained. |
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| | | Issue | Whether the provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that prohibit the transmission of indecent and patently offensive materials to minors over the Internet violate the First Amendment. | |
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Majority Opinion
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Stevens, J. |
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Concurring Opinion
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O'Connor, concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part (joined by Rehnquist, C.J.) |
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Lower Court
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Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
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Oral Arguments
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Oral Arguments
[Oyez]
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| Lawyers |
Seth Waxman (Solicitor General)
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| Briefs |
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| Tony Mauro Analysis |
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| Opinion - Lower Court |
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| News |
Biskupic, & Schwartz, John, "Justices Weigh Issues of Internet Safeguards, Censorship," Washington Post, March 20, 1997, sect. A, p. 11
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Elsasser, Glen, "Court Logs on to Decide On-Line Free Speech Case," Chicago Tribune, March 19, 1997, p. 1
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Farrell, John Aloysius, "High court gets Internet indecency case," Boston Globe, March 20, 1997, sect. A, p. 8
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Greenhouse, Linda, "Spirited Debate in High Court On Decency Rules for Internet," New York Times, March 20, 1997, sect. B, p. 10
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Greenhouse, Linda, "Statute on Internet Decency Draws High Court's Review," New York Times, December 7, 1996, p. 1
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Marquand, Robert, "Purging Porn vs. Free Speech On the Internet," Christian Science Monitor," March 18, 1997, p. 1
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Savage, David, "Supreme Court debates Internet Decency Law," Los Angeles Times, March 20, 1997, p. 21
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The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, March 19, 1997 (transcript available on LexisNexis)
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| Other |
Hardy, "The Proper Legal Regime for 'Cyberspace,'" 55 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 993 (1994)
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Heins, Marjorie, NOT IN FRONT OF THE CHILDREN: "INDECENCY," CENSORSHIP, AND THE INNOCENCE OF YOUTH (2001), pp. 157-179
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Lessig & Resnick, "Zoning Speech on the Internet: A Legal & Technological Model," 98 Michigan Law Review 395 (1999)
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Rimm, Marty, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: A Survey of 917,410 Images, Descriptions, Short Stories, and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities . . .," 83 Georgetown L.J. 1849 (1995)
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Ross, "Anything Geos: Examining the State's Interest in Protecting Children from Controversial Speech," 53 Vanderbilt Law Review 427 (2000)
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Strossen, Nadine, "Children's Rights v. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled?," 29 Conneticut Law Review 873 (1997)
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Sullivan, Kathleen, "First Amendment Intermediaries in the Age of Cyberspace," 45 UCLA Law Review 1653 (1998)
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Volokh, Eugene, "Freedom of Speech in Cyberspace From the Listener's Perspective: Private Speech Restrictions, Libel, State Action, Harassment and Sex," 1996 University of Chicago Legal Forum 377 (1996)
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| Commentary |
Editorial, "Cyberspace Content, Bedrock Belief," The Oregonian, June 29, 1997
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Editorial, "Yes, The Net is Speech," Washington Post, June 27, 1997
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