American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), et al.
Respondents
Ann E. Beeson, Counsel of RecordIn 1998, the ACLU, along with a group of 14 electronic publishing and free speech organizations, filed suit against the United States, alleging that the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violated their First Amendment freedom of speech. COPA is Congress’s second attempt to control the proliferation of pornography on the Internet, after another ACLU-led lawsuit ended when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous, more sweeping law, also on First Amendment grounds. After hearing testimony from experts on COPA, the district court granted a preliminary injunction in favor of the ACLU on November 1998,…
