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CDA Overturned




06/26/1997 10:07 EST 

 Court Nixes Internet Smut Provision 


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress violated free-speech rights when it tried to curb smut on the Internet, the Supreme Court ruled today. In its first venture into cyberspace law, the court invalidated a key provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.