US Judge Rejects Law to Block Child Porn on Web
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A Pennsylvania law allowing the state to force Internet service providers to block access to child pornography sites is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a surveillance provision of the USA Patriot Act which requires Internet providers to supply personal information about customers to the federal government, and bars them from disclosing that they received a special
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Sign of the times The US Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a man who was sentenced to 200 years in prison for the possession of child pornography. It was one of several recent actions indicating that America's courts are getting tough on kiddie-porn suspects in an age where the trafficking of such images are easier than ever.â¦
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A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites deemed by the state's prosecuting attorneys to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court on free-speech grounds.
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The 6th Circuit tosses federal law saying Americans taking naughty digital pics of themselves and a willing adult partner must make those images available for the attorney general's perusal--or to go prison.
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A federal judge on Tuesday refused to  accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee  accused of selling the Internet provider's customer list to a  "spammer," saying he was unsure a crime had been committed.
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A US judge rejects a call for a separate inquiry into the CIA's destruction of tapes of terror suspects being interrogated.
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A federal judge ruled on Monday a California law to label violent video games and bar their sale to minors was unconstitutional, prompting Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to say he would appeal the ruling.
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An Arkansas circuit judge on Wednesday threw out the state&#39;s ban against foster parenthood by gay couples or by households that include a gay adult.
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AUSTIN, Texas - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.
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Record keeping duties removed from pornographers A law requiring publishers of sexually explicit content to document and record the age of participants in material has been ruled unconstitutional by a US court. Experts had warned that the law could cause problems for photo-sharing websites.â¦
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SANTA ROSA, Calif., Oct. 4 -- A judge declined Wednesday to grant a second request by the defense to dismiss the child pornography case against the onetime suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.
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A federal judge has rejected a man's bid for exoneration in a child-molestation case explored in a noted documentary film, saying he filed his appeal too late.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.
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A federal judge on Thursday ruled  against the government's ban on so-called partial birth  abortions, saying the measure was unconstitutional because it  failed to provide an exception to protect a mother's health.
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A federal judge gives Pennsylvania's internet child pornography law the boot. The controversial law required ISPs to block child porn websites, but in doing so, they prohibited access to many legal sites, leading to a 'massive suppression' of free speech.
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U.S. District Judge Kollar-Kotelly, the same judge who threw out the Microsoft break-up ruling, and backed the feds in the Gitmo case, issued a 157-page ruling today which rejects 15 of the 19 federal rules implementing the two year old US campaign finance law. While the ruling does not affect the law's key prohibition against large donations to political parties (known as "soft money") it does seem to create some uncertainty for political fund-raising, with only six weeks to go until the elections.