Supreme court passes on internet obscenity case
 

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Mar 20, 10:27 AM EST

Justices Pass on Internet Obscenity Case

By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court turned back an appeal on Monday from a photographer who claimed a federal decency law violated her free-speech rights to post pictures of sadomasochistic sexual behavior on the Web.

Justices affirmed a decision last year by a special three-judge federal panel upholding the 1996 law which makes it a crime to (read more)

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"The Bush administration had urged justices to stay out of the case."

Interesting... I would like to know more as to why they wanted to stay out of this one.

More ammo for the governments renewal of COPA in the next few months.

Regards,

Lee

I found that interesting as well.

The whole problem with obscenity is that it is undefined. It's a law that you can never know if you have broken it until you face a jury, and even then it will depend on what 12 people sit in the jury!

The simple answer is to define obscenity. Then everyone will know the risk they take to publish a particular image.

more info:

http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2005...0526.resp.html