From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 23:16:35 +0800
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Subject: Fwd: FC: For Judge Reed, nixing CDA II was a difficult decision
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>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16387.html
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>                     by Declan McCullagh 
>                     3:00 a.m.  20.Nov.98.PST
>
>                     US District Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. is a
>                     reluctant free speech advocate. 
>
>                     It took him all day Thursday to accept
>                     that the CDA II, scheduled to take effect
>                     on Friday, would have let federal
>                     prosecutors punish any American who
>                     operates Web sites with material deemed
>                     "harmful to minors." 
>
>                     By the time he finally decided to bar the
>                     Justice Department from enforcing the
>                     law, he painstakingly outlined how
>                     difficult his decision was. "The court has
>                     and will give careful analytical deference
>                     to" an act of Congress, he said. 
>
>                     Reed's reluctance is easy enough to
>                     understand. In language sure to give
>                     even the most steely-nerved judge the
>                     jitters, the US Supreme Court has called
>                     any court's decision to strike down an act
>                     of Congress "the gravest and most
>                     delicate duty that [it can be] called upon
>                     to perform."
>
>                     [...]
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