Prison Legal News v. Kane
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania struck down a Pennsylvania law that allowed victims to stop conduct — including speech — by a convicted offender if it causes “mental anguish.”
Category: other cases
Entertainment Merchants Association v. Henry
The U.S. District Court struck down an Oklahoma law that banned the sale of video games with “inappropriate violence” to minors by adding material containing “inappropriate violence” to the state’s “harmful to minors” law.
Entertainment Software Association v. Foti
The U.S. District Court struck down a Louisiana law that added video games with violent content to the definition of “harmful to minors,” as well as video games with sexual content.
Entertainment Software Association v. Granholm
The U.S. District Court ruled that a Michigan law that added video games with “ultra-violent explicit” content to the definition of “harmful to minors” was unconstitutional.
Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down two provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that respectively sought to criminalize the “knowing” transmission to minors of messages that are “obscene or indecent” and “patently offensive.”
Playboy Enterprises, Inc. v. Meese
The U.S. District Court ordered the Meese Commission to withdraw its letter to corporations threatening to list them as distributors of pornography and barred any such list of retailers from being issued.
