Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition: The U.S. Supreme Court Upholds the Legality of Virtual Child Pornography (2002)
Thursday, 05 September 2002
In a significant free speech decision, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year affirmed the holding of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that two key provisions of The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA) are overbroad and, therefore, violate the First Amendment. The first provision would have criminalized “any visual
- Published in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, Child Pornography, Child Pornography Prevention Act, CPPA, First Amendment, Free Speech, Internet, Overbreadth
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