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Court Case: UNITED STATES et al. v. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, INC., et al. (Research)
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Argued March 5, 2003–Decided June 23, 2003 Two forms of federal assistance help public libraries provide patrons with Internet access: discounted rates under the E-rate program and grants under the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). Upon discovering that library patrons, including minors, regularly search the Internet for pornography and expose others to pornographic images […]
Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U.S. 41 (1986), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that localities may impose regulations prohibiting adult theaters from operating within certain areas. Read the case and decision at the following: http://supreme.justia.com/us/475/41/case.html Date Published: 1986 Author: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
Since its January 17 debut, MTV’s Skins has been plagued with falling ratings, advertiser defection, and a critical panning — any one of which would be enough to kill any other show. (Can you for a minute imagine a feel-good family show lasting seven episodes under the same circumstances?) But the story that should have […]
On June 23, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, declared theChildren’s Internet Protection Act constitutional. CIPA conditions the receipt of federal funds by public libraries upon the installation of filtering software that blocks access to material that is “obscene,” “child pornography” or “harmful to minors.” Even as it recognized that “a filter […]
A Kansas Department of Corrections rule barring inmates from possessing sexually explicit materials is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled this week. .. “Prohibiting inmates from possessing sexually explicit material is a common-sense measure to maintain order within the corrections system,” Schmidt said. “This ruling upholds the authority of the Department of Corrections to maintain […]
The public is being asked to help convince the Department of Justice to prosecute cases of illegal adult pornography. Several members of the House and Senate, including Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Mike McIntyre (D-North Carolina) and Randy Forbes (R-Virginia), have written their colleagues, asking them to join in the effort to pressure the agency and U.S. […]
The clinic that, for the last decade, had monitored the health of those working in the multibillion-dollar pornography industry abruptly shut its doors in December. Now Los Angeles has moved to fill that role. Last week, city lawmakers voted unanimously to draft an ordinance that would require condoms to be used on the set of […]
Our compliment, however, is reluctant and muted. Why should it take a warning from the Parent’s Television Council (and the attendant outcry from other family groups and editorial boards) for brand managers of Fortune 500 companies to second-guess their initial choice to sponsor a show rife with scatology? What kind of professional brand management thought […]
“I sought out these relationships and photos, even though I knew it was wrong. … But to me it was somehow less of a failure than it would have been for me to divorce my wife and abandon her, or to have a series of affairs,” he wrote. Over time, the women got younger. Then […]
Marriott International has announced its plans to refrain from offering “adult” movies at its new hotel locations, but one anti-porn group doesn’t fully buy the hotel chain’s logic. More at http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=1282336 Date Published: 1/27/11 Author: Chris Woodward, OneNewsNow