CDA Suit Strategies and Funding Draw Board's Focus

摘要

ALA's challenge to the Communications Decency Act (AL, Aug. 1996, p. 11)-legal strategies and the suit's funding-was the focus of much attention from the ALA Executive Board during its three Midwinter Meeting sessions in Washington. When it announcedin December that it would hear the government's appeal of the case, the Supreme Court consolidated ALA's suit challenging the act with a separate suit led by the American Civil Liberties Union, and only one of the co-plaintiffs will be allowed to argue the case before the Supreme Court. Freedom to Read Foundation (FTRF) President June Pinnell-Stephens explained that while the ACLU's argument would emphasize the indecency issue, ALA legal counsel Bruce Ennis would stress the fact that the act would cut off access to constitutionally protected information.