[82140] in Cypherpunks
Re: Courts strike down New York and Georgia Net-censorship laws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Fri Jun 20 18:12:07 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970620134824.28917B-100000@well.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 14:42:48 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
>But the rulings differ in important ways. Manhattan's
>Judge Preska did not answer whether the New York law
>violated the First Amendment, saying she was going to
>wait for the U.S. Supreme Court's to rule on the
>Communications Decency Act. She said, however, that
>she didn't *need to answer* that question to strike
>down the law since it violated the U.S. Constitution's
>ban on states attempts to regulate commerce outside
>their borders.
Might this also mean that states attempting to restrict Internet gaming
might similarly be restrained?
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