Holding that an Alaska criminal statute threatened to reduce all speech on the Internet “to only what is fit for children,” the Federal District Court in Anchorage permanently barred enforcement of that statute because it violates First Amendment rights of free speech.
Read MoreThe Federal District Court in Anchorage has granted a Preliminary Injunction requested by Alaska booksellers, libraries, and other First Amendment and media organizations. Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline’s ruling blocks portions of recently passed Senate Bill 222, which could have made anyone who operates a website criminally liable for posting material deemed “harmful to minors,” and would have banned from the Internet information that adults and older minors have a First Amendment right to view.
Read MoreA coalition of organizations and local booksellers today filed suit to block a broad Alaska censorship law that bans constitutionally protected speech on the Internet on topics including contraception and pregnancy, sexual health, literature, and art and also threatens retailers of books, magazines, movies and other media.
Read MoreLouisiana H.B. 258 would require any website that publishes material “harmful to minors” on the Internet to require an “age verification system” to access the material.
Read MoreA broad range of media organizations, booksellers, librarians, and publishers, submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus.
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