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First CD-ROM Brief Accepted by Supreme Court Page 2 of 31 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 (215) 751-2162 Of Counsel. List of Amici Curiae: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF JOURNALISTS AND AUTHORS, AUTHORS GUILD, CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY/UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE, COALITION FOR POSITIVE SEXUALITY, CREATIVE COALITION OF ARTISTS, TRI DANG DO, FEMINISTS FOR FREE EXPRESSION, MARGARITA LACABE, LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND, INC., MAGGIE LaNOUE, LOD COMMUNICATIONS, PETER LUDLOW, CHUCK MORE, PEN AMERICAN CENTER, PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE, PSINET, INC., ERIC S. RAYMOND, DON RITTNER, THE SEXUALITY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES, LLOYD K. STIRES, PETER J. SWANSON, KIRSTI THOMAS, WEB COMMUNICATIONS, and MIRYAM EHRLICH WILLIAMSON All Parties Consent to the Filing of this Amicus Brief TABLE OF CONTENTS Page TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ii STATEMENT OF INTEREST OF AMICI CURIAE 2 SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT 2 ARGUMENT 4 In Criminalizing Speech with Serious Social, Political, Artistic, Literary, Medical, Journalistic, and Educational Value, the CDA Is Not Narrowly Tailored To Achieve Its 4 Stated Justification A. The CDA Is Overbroad in Banning Speech of Content Providers 7 Medical Information on the Internet 7 Artwork on the Internet 13 Literature on the Internet 16 Social and Political Discourse on the Internet 20 Journalism on the Internet 23 Education on the Internet 26 B. The CDA Also Is Overbroad in Banning Speech Sought by Content Recipients 28 CONCLUSION 30 [P. ii] file://C:\Documents and Settings\u0072943\Desktop\Brief.htm 7/11/2008
First CD-ROM Brief Accepted by Supreme Court Page 3 of 31 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Cases Board of Airport Commissioners v. Jews for Jesus, Inc., 482 U.S. 569 (1987) 4 Branton v. FCC, 993 F.2d 906 (D.C. Cir. 1993), cert. denied, 114 S. C. 1610 (1994) 25 Butler v. Michigan, 352 U.S. 380 (1957) 6 Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium v. FCC, 518 U.S. __, 116 S. Ct. 2374 (1996) Page 5-6, 8 Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville, 422 U.S. 205 (1975) 5-6 FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978) Herceg v. Hustler Magazine, Inc., 814 F.2d 1017 (5th Cir. 1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 959 (1988) 10-12, 26 18, 24 Keyishian v. Board of Regents of University of State of New York, 385 U.S. 589 (1967) 27 Massachusetts v. Oakes, 491 U.S. 576 (1989) 4 Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413 (1966) 17 Minarcini v. Strongville City School District, 541 F.2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976) 18, 28 Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969) 28-29 Sable Communications v. FCC, 492 U.S. 115 (1989) 6 Schad v. Mount Ephraim, 452 U.S. 61 (1981) 4 [P.iii] Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, 425 U.S. 748 (1976) First Amendment Constitution of the United States 28 passim Fifth Amendment 1 Statutes Communications Decency Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 223(a), 223(d) Legislative Materials passim H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 104-458, at 188-89 (1996) 10 Internet World Wide Web Pages (Universal Resource Locators) "The Alanis Annex," http://mbess.ccsm.uiuc.edu:80/alanis Video file: http://www.schnader.com/know1.mov [Exhibit 17] 19 file://C:\Documents and Settings\u0072943\Desktop\Brief.htm 7/11/2008
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