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Unanimous decision for ACLU majority opinion by John Paul Stevens. The "indecent transmission" and "patently offensive display" provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 violate the First Amendment.
RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. No. 96-511. Argued March 19, 1997-Decided June 26, 1997.
riminalizes the “knowing” trans-mission of “obscene or indecent” messages to any recipient under 18 years of age. Section 223(d) prohibits the “knowin[g]” sending or dis-playing to a person under 18 of any message “that, in context, depicts or describes,
26 cze 1997 · Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously ruled that anti-indecency provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Two Justices concurred in part and dissented in part to the decision.
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, unanimously ruling that anti-indecency provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. [1]
20 cze 2017 · In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU that the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) is an unconstitutional restriction on free speech. The landmark ruling affirmed the dangers of censoring what one judge called "the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed."
27 cze 1996 · 06/28/1996 -- Government to Appeal ACLU v. Reno Decision Protecting Free Speech in Cyberspace; ACLU Encouraged by Supreme Court Ruling on Cable. 04/01/1996 -- Barry Steinhardt asks: "Is Cyberspace Free?" ACLU v. Reno Trial Testimony and Transcripts: Gavel to Gavel Coverage.
