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Re: Is anonymous speech protected?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim McCoy)
Mon May 17 22:53:25 1999
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:30:32 -0700
To: Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com>, Cryptography-C2 <cryptography@c2.net>
From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@io.com>
Cc: SoftSpeech <sftspch@samsara.law.cwru.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v04205112b36652888097@[192.168.248.7]>
At 04:30 PM 5/17/99 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote:
>Second Question: can anyone cite/remember any other federal court decision
>that protects one's right to remain anonymous (other than those protecting
>victims or people in federal witness protection programs, etc)?
Talley v California
362 US 60
This case in 1960 concerned the anonymous distribution of leaflets in LA,
IIRC. A local ordinance required the leaflets to have printed on them some
informaition regarding the printer and a "true name" of who was behind the
effort.
There was another case in the mid-90s similar to this which made it up to
the Supremes. Either way, this particular decision was nothing new... As
always, IANAL.
jim
