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Fwd: FC: For Judge Reed, nixing CDA II was a difficult decision
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>From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
>Subject: FC: For Judge Reed, nixing CDA II was a difficult decision
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16387.html
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> by Declan McCullagh
> 3:00 a.m. 20.Nov.98.PST
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> US District Judge Lowell A. Reed Jr. is a
> reluctant free speech advocate.
>
> It took him all day Thursday to accept
> that the CDA II, scheduled to take effect
> on Friday, would have let federal
> prosecutors punish any American who
> operates Web sites with material deemed
> "harmful to minors."
>
> By the time he finally decided to bar the
> Justice Department from enforcing the
> law, he painstakingly outlined how
> difficult his decision was. "The court has
> and will give careful analytical deference
> to" an act of Congress, he said.
>
> Reed's reluctance is easy enough to
> understand. In language sure to give
> even the most steely-nerved judge the
> jitters, the US Supreme Court has called
> any court's decision to strike down an act
> of Congress "the gravest and most
> delicate duty that [it can be] called upon
> to perform."
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> [...]
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