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Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (U.S. 1997)

Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided
What it did

Struck the law down: Communications Decency Act of 1996, indecent transmission and patently offensive display provisions in force struck down

Where it stands
No later step on record

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