Legal Opinion
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression v. Dean
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided April 18, 2002No. 1:01-cv-00046PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION: FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
MURTHA, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs, a variety of businesses and membership-based advocacy organizations that use the Internet to communicate, display, and access a broad range of speech and ideas, challenge the constitutionality of two Vermont statutes which criminalize the distribution to minors of any image or written material in an electronic format that is sexually explicit and which is found “harmful to minors.” See Vt.Stat.Ann. (“V.S.A.”) tit. 13, §§ 2802, 2802a (1998 & 2001 Supp.). Plaintiffs have not been charged or threatened…
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