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...part or all of the broadcast day. "The Internet deserves at least as much protection as print," wrote the judges. "As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion." The decision is at least a temporary victory for the ACLU, which along with 57 other organizations had filed suit against the act once it passed. "The ACLU argued that no additional laws were needed to regulate the Internet," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "Child pornography and obscenity are already illegal and the government has been very effective in dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decency Act Blocked | 6/13/1996 | See Source »

...group became less interested in pursuing national issues," Hauser says. "They felt that doing work with the ACLU was not as productive; that curtailed the number of issues the group could deal with...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Struggling CLUH Faces Declining Role on Campus | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Last Thursday night Abdul-Rauf acceded to NBA demands to stand with his teammates for the national anthem. But during the brief suspension statements of solidarity and condemnation amassed with great speed. The ACLU readied its forces, the American Legion cried "treason" and columnists flocked to both sides of the debate. The New York Times entered the fray on Thursday, late, but with force, rebuking the NBA for having "damaged core democratic ideals" by suspending Abdul-Rauf...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Box-Office Patriotism | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

...Although one wouldn't know it from Clinton's politically clever proclamation, school boards already have the power to require uniforms if they choose to do so. But in Long Beach, Calif., which began requiring uniforms in 1994 for all 70,000 children in kindergarten through eighth grades, the ACLU has filed a case saying uniforms discriminate against poor children who can't afford them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Require School Uniforms | 3/8/1996 | See Source »

...going without challenges, of course. Civil rights groups in and out of cyberspace, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued to test the constitutionality of the law. Yesterday, a federal judge banned the goverment from enforcing the law until he hears arguments on the lawsuit. Many observers believe the CDA will be found to violate First Amendment rights of speech and expression...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: tech TALK | 2/16/1996 | See Source »

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