p> Laws that try to keep adult materials away from minors end up reducing all online content to that which is suitable for children -- the Supreme Court delclared this outcome unconstitutional in Reno ...

The case could hinge on the Supreme Court’s 1997 decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, which held that the government cannot protect minors by broadly suppressing speech directed ...

Despite past cases that upheld government regulation of obscene material on radio and television, the Supreme Court held in Reno v. ACLU that regulation of speech on the internet deserved strict ...

Technology has come a long way since the Court first struck down age-verification requirements. Age verification services are ...

As the justices mull getting back into the business of strictly scrutinizing smut, their forebears offer some good reasons ...

The ACLU and others litigated this exact same question–whether the government can make a website liable for publishing sexual content without first verifying the age of visitors–in the late ‘90s and ...

In Texas, Florida, and more than a dozen other states, users who try to access the world’s largest pornography website are ...

The justices struck it down one year later in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union on First Amendment grounds because its terms were overly broad, therefore declining to treat the internet ...

Walters, told Mashable. The latter case he referred to is Reno v. ACLU, a 1997 decision that determined prohibiting "indecent" online speech violated the First Amendment. How can these laws pass ...

The Supreme Court will have precedent to consider as it hears arguments in the case. In 1997, in Reno v. ACLU, the Federal Communications Decency Act — which initially aimed to impose criminal ...