The 3rd. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally broad & vague, upholding last year’s ruling from the District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania. (Ruling)
An Associated Press/New York Times article, yesterday, said the decision was “another twist” in the decade-long battle over the Child Online Protection Act, (Title 14 Pp. 736) which was passed in 1998, but has never taken effect. It was the successor to the Communications Decency Act (Title 5 Pp. 78) which the Supreme Court also found unconstitutional in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union in June 1997.
Pennsylvania District Court’s opinion
Further background on Wikipedia for COPA and Communications Decency Act
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