FW: [ALACRO-L:2147] CIPA Decided In Favor Of ALA

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 09:05:27 -0500
From: Michael Dowling <mdowling@ala.org>
To: ALA Chapter Relations Office List <alacro-l@ala1.ala.org>
Subject: [ALACRO-L:2147] CIPA Decided In Favor Of ALA!

Colleagues:

This just in from Philadelphia.  The court ruled unanimously for us.
Details may be found below. Our thanks and gratitude to all concerned.

John W. Berry
ALA President

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CIPA Decided

Concluding that "we are constrained to conclude that the library
plaintiffs must prevail in their contention that CIPA requires them to
violate the First Amendment rights of their patrons, and accordingly is
facially invalid," the three-judge panel sitting in the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania ruled Sections 1712(a)(2) and 1721(b) of the Children's
Internet Protection Act to be facially invalid under the First Amendment
and permanently enjoined the government from enforcing those provisions.

See

http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/02D0415P.HTM

or

http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/02D0415P.ZIP

or

http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/us03011.shtml
__________________________

Don Wood
Program Officer/Communications
American Library Association
Office for Intellectual Freedom
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
1-800-545-2433, ext. 4225
Fax: 312-280-4227
dwood@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/alaorg/oif/
http://www.ala.org/cipa/cipalegalfund.html