The Communications Decency Act (CDA): In litigation, headed for the Supreme Court

Two groups are working hard on the Supreme Court CDA case. Check out their resources:

• The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC)
• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

The case to challenge the Communications Decency Act was brought by the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Since the Department of Justice has announced its intent to appeal the ruling, our next stop in the  campaign for online free speech is the Supreme Court!

Online campaign: how can I help?
• Join the lawsuit on its way to the Supreme Court!

You can still become a named plaintiff in the CIEC (Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition), and sue the Federal government along with 45,000 other netizens and a score of Internet businesses. To sign on as a plaintiff, go to the CIEC signup WWW page.

Text of court decisions

The text of the decision in ALA/ACLU v Reno is available at:
• Text of the decision broken into small parts, courtesy Gilles Frydman 
• Text of the decision broken into small parts, courtesy Michael Hanson 
• Another HTML version, from Bob Bickford (rab@well.com)
• VTW [250K]
• Citizens' Internet Empowerment Coalition
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (with excerpts for easy reading!) 
• People For the American Way

The text of the decision in Shea v Reno is available at NetWatchers. Pointers To People Suing the Feds:
• Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The American Civil Liberties Union
• HotWired's archive of info on the fight