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Criminal

May 15, 2002

Justices Keep Alive Internet Child Porn Act

WASHINGTON - A badly fractured Supreme Court on Monday kept alive the federal government's effort to save the Child Online Pornography Act of 1998, which criminalizes making available on the Internet material that is "harmful to minors."

By David F. Pike
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - A badly fractured Supreme Court on Monday kept alive the federal government's effort to save the Child Online Pornography Act of 1998, which criminalizes making available on the Internet material that is "harmful to minors."
        Five justices held that the law cannot be struck...

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