From: Cindy Cohn <Cindy@mcglashan.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT)
To: Sobel@epic.org
Subject: Court Allows Unlicensed Crypto Export
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>To: bernstein-announce@toad.com, eff-board@eff.org, eff-staff@eff.org
>Subject: Court Allows Unlicensed Crypto Export
>Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 17:21:45 -0700
>From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
>Sender: owner-bernstein-announce@toad.com
>Reply-To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
>
>		COURT ALLOWS UNLICENSED CRYPTO EXPORT
>		Professor Bernstein can publish soon
>
>San Francisco, August 29, 1997 - Yesterday a federal judge here denied a
>government motion to silence mathematician Daniel Bernstein.
>
>On August 25, District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel declared the
>Commerce Department's cryptography regulations unconstitutional.
>Judge Patel also issued an injunction to prohibit prosecution of Prof.
>Bernstein and others who publish Prof. Bernstein's work.
>
>In response to an emergency motion from the government on August 28,
>Judge Patel ruled that most of the injunction would be put on hold
>until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has had a chance to review
>Prof. Bernstein's case.  However, part of the injunction will remain
>in effect: after September 8, Prof. Bernstein will be free to publish
>his Snuffle 5.0 software on the Internet without fear of prosecution.
>Snuffle 5.0 is at the heart of Prof. Bernstein's lawsuit against the
>government.
>
>Scanned images of the Government's emergency request for a stay
>are available from EFF's online archives at:
>        http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/
>	     Legal/970827_stay_motion.images
>
>Prof. Bernstein's opposition to the stay is at:
>        http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/
>	     Legal/970827_stay.opposition
>
>Full text of the lawsuit and other paperwork filed in the case is
>available from EFF's online archives at:
>        http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/ITAR_export/Bernstein_case/
>
>Press Contacts:
>
>	Shari Steele, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
>	301/375-8856, ssteele@eff.org
>
>	John Gilmore, Founding Board Member, EFF
>	541/354-6541, gnu@toad.com
>
>	Cindy Cohn, McGlashan & Sarrail
>	415/341-2585, cindy@mcglashan.com
>
>
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Cindy A. Cohn                                                               
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