US law on age proof in explicit images is ruled unconstitutional
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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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First of its kind ... but not the last A bid by the US government to force a child porn suspect to surrender his encryption password has sparked fierce debate about whether the move violates constitutional protections against self-incrimination.â¦
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Judges say adults have a right to produce porn anonymously, and to take sexually explicit photos in their own homes without keeping records for Justice Department inspection.
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U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the Stored Communications Act as unconstitutional, protecting e-mail for the first time in 20 years.
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A provision of the controversial Patriot Act which allowed the FBI to clandestinely demand information from ISPs has been ruled unconstitutional.
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A federal judge has ruled that a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act is an unconstitutional breach of the first and fourth amendments... US District Judge Victor Marrero, saying &quot;democracy abhors undue secrecy
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Cached images not evidence A US court has said the existence of child pornography images in the cache of a man's computer did not mean that man had committed a crime under state law. The Court of Appeals in Georgia has reversed the man's conviction.â¦
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US District Judge Victor Marrero ruled Wednesday that the section of the US Patriot Act allowing authorities to demand financial records from companies in terrorism investigations is unconstitutional.
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The naked truth, the Supreme Court says, is that the Constitution's free speech guarantee doesn't protect a police officer who used the Internet to sell videotapes of himself stripping off his uniform and pretending to write tickets.
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The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would rule on whether U.S. voters must show a government-issued photo identification at the polls, a divisive issue ahead of next year's national elections.
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The Supreme Court, in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003, ruled that sodomy laws violate Americans' rights to privacy as well as equal protection under the law.
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update A federal court has struck down a Pennsylvania law that blocks access to Web sites labeled as child pornography, claiming that the rule violated the First Amendment.
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Part of the Patriot Act, a central  plank of the Bush Administration's war on terror, was ruled  unconstitutional by a federal judge on Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court of Japan on Tuesday overruled a 2003 Tokyo High Court decision and decided that âMapplethorpe,â a book of erotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-89), shown at right in a self-portrait, did not violate obscenity laws, The Associated Press reported. The decision should pave the way for sale of the book in Japan for the first time in eight years. Although it decided that the book was not indecent, the Supreme Court rejected a demand by the publisher, Uplink, for government compensation of $20,370, according to Takashi Ando, a spokesman for the court. Takashi Asai of Uplink had been contesting the confiscation of the book in 1999 and his voluntary suspension of its sales in 2000 in response to police warnings. In the Supreme Court decision, by a majority of the five-judge bench, Justice Kohei Nasu wrote that the 384-page volume of black-and-white portraits, including 20 close-ups of male genitalia, âcompiles work from the artistic point of view, and is not obscene as a whole.â Mr. Asai sold about 900 copies of the Japanese version of âMapplethorpe,â originally published in Japan by Random House in 1994 without objection from the authorities. But airport customs officials, declaring the book obscene, confiscated Mr. Asaiâs copy when he returned from a trip to the United States in 1999. He called the Supreme Court decision âgroundbreakingâ and said it âcould change the obscenity standardâ used for banning foreign films that depict nudity and for censoring photographs in books.
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A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law -- one of the first attempts to control junk e-mail advertising -- is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate commerce outside the state's borders.
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Blog: Flickr limits German-speaking users to seeing only photos marked "safe" to comply with German law, but hopes to fix the situation soon.
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A Montgomery County judge has ruled that Maryland's anti-spam law is unconstitutional because it seeks to regulate business transactions beyond the state's borders.