Dial Information Services Corp. of New York v. Thornburgh

MINER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Richard L. Thorn-burgh, Attorney General of the United States, appeals from a preliminary injunction order entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Patterson, Jr., J.) enjoining enforcement of a statute that prohibits providers of indecent telephone communications for commercial purposes from making their services available to persons under 18 years of age. The statute in question, the 1989 amendment to the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. §§ 223(b) and (c), known as the Helms Amendment after its principal…