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Ashcroft v. ACLU (I)

United States Supreme Court

535 U.S. 564 (2002)

Constitutional Law
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COPA restricted transmitting material a community's average person would find prurient, patently offensive to minors, and lacking serious value for minors; the ACLU (plaintiff) challenged COPA's reliance on varying community standards as facially unconstitutional given the internet's nationwide reach, and the lower courts agreed.

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Whether the Child Online Protection Act's use of community standards to identify material that is harmful to minors violates the First Amendment.

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