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From: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:04:39 +0800
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Subject: Fight-Censorship Dispatch #15: Government Appeals CDA!
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Fight-Censorship Dispatch #15
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Justice Department Appeals!
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By Declan McCullagh / declan@well.com / Redistribute freely
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June 27, 1996
WASHINGTON, DC -- With no fanfare and no hype, the Justice Department
yesterday faxed a 39-word statement to Senator Exon saying they will
appeal their loss in the Philadelphia case.
The consolidated lawsuits of ACLU v. Reno and ALA v. DoJ resulted in a
victory for the plaintiffs earlier this month after a three-judge panel
granted a preliminary injunction preventing the DoJ from enforcing the
Communications Decency Act.
I didn't know about this letter until about 15 minutes ago, when Bruce "I
wrote the CDA" Taylor showed up outside my office for a HotWired Club
Wired chat at 9 pm this evening.
Taylor was grinning. "I got a scoop for you guys. You owe me. Nobody but
Senator Exon would have gotten this letter out of the department."
For a while, netizens were worrying that the DoJ might appeal the New
York American Reporter v. Reno case, a narrower and weaker appeal that
only challenged part of the CDA.
This letter means that the ACLU/ALA case is definitely going to the
Supremes, which will likely result in a decision a year from now.
Stay tuned for more reports, and check in at Club Wired for the Taylor
transcript. He says it'll be a "roast." We'll see...
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Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Washington, DC 20530
June 26, 1996
The Honorable J. James Exon
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Exon:
With regard to your request as to the status of the appeal on ACLU v.
Reno, this letter is to inform you that the Department of Justice will
file a Notice of Appeal on or before the July 2 deadline.
Sincerely
[signed]
Jamie S. Gorelick
Deputy Attorney General
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Mentioned in this CDA update:
HotWired Club Wired:
http://www.hotwired.com/eff/
Deputy Atty Gen Jamie Gorelick's speech slamming Net, calling for controls:
http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2733
Bruce Taylor's amicus "finger" brief in NYC CDA lawsuit:
http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=2736
Fight-Censorship list <http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/>
Rimm ethics critique <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/rimm/>
Int'l Net-Censorship <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~declan/international/>
Justice on Campus <http://joc.mit.edu/>
This document and previous Fight-Censorship Dispatches are archived at:
<http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/top/>
To subscribe to future Fight-Censorship Dispatches and related
announcements, send "subscribe fight-censorship-announce" in the body
of a message addressed to:
majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu
Other relevant web sites:
<http://www.vtw.org/>
<http://www.cpsr.org/>
<http://www.epic.org/>
<http://www.aclu.org/>
<http://www.cdt.org/>
<http://www.ala.org/>
<http://www.eff.org/>
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