Subject:  ACLU and Telecommunications Act
Author:  CourtTV
Uploaded By:  CourtTV
Date:  2/9/1996

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Hours after President Clinton signed a bill overhauling the telecommunications law, the American Civil Liberites Union and 19 other groups challenged the bill's provisions making  it a crime punishable by $250,000 in fines and two years in prison to send "indecent" material that could be viewed by a minor over a computer network. They claim the act allows the prosecution of individuals for any computer message about sex. 
The law seeks an immediate temporary injunction a blocking the provisions, saying they were unconsitutional and would cause irrepreable harm to First Amendment free speech rights if allowed to take affect.
Here's the complaint, filed February 8, 1996, in federal court in Philadelphia.