Ashcroft v. ACLU (I)
United States Supreme Court
535 U.S. 564 (2002)
Relevant factsFree
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.
IssueFree
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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