Courts strike down New York and Georgia Net-censorship laws

Steve Schear azur at netcom.com
Fri Jun 20 14:46:31 PDT 1997



>But the rulings differ in important ways. Manhattan's
>Judge Preska did not answer whether the New York law
>violated the First Amendment, saying she was going to
>wait for the U.S. Supreme Court's to rule on the
>Communications Decency Act. She said, however, that
>she didn't *need to answer* that question to strike
>down the law since it violated the U.S. Constitution's
>ban on states attempts to regulate commerce outside
>their borders.

Might this also mean that states attempting to restrict Internet gaming
might similarly be restrained?



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