Justices Give Reprieve to an Internet Pornography Statute
The latest effort by Congress to shield children from pornography on the Internet barely survived an initial Supreme Court test today in a fractured decision suggesting that the court may ultimately find the law unconstitutional.

In the meantime, the court continued in effect a Federal District Court order that has blocked enforcement of the law, the Child Online Protection Act, since February 1999. The statute, which imposes prison sentences and fines of up to $100,000 for placing material that is "harmful to minors" on a Web site available to those under the age of 17, was passed in 1998 and has never taken effect.
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