reno v aclu strict scrutiny

THE CDA FAILS STRICT SCRUTINY. None of these provisions purports to keep indecent (or patently offensive) material away from adults, who have a First Amendment right to obtain this speech. As the District Court found, "the content on the Internet is as diverse as human thought." Finally, the government's attempt to define the non-display provisions narrowly has been unclear and inconsistent. And yet the CDA requires all of these speakers to determine, before they speak, whether their statements are "patently offensive." ute, would it be practicable to limit our holding to a judicially defined set of specific applications. Even if the government had presented actual evidence -- which it did not -- that some parents were deterred from using the Internet because of the presence of sexual material, this would certainly not justify a content-based, criminal ban on protected speech. at 44a, ¶76. . at 136a (The defenses are "unavailable to participants in specific forms of Internet communication")(Dalzell, J.). at ¶89. . Of course, the reach of the CDA extends far beyond the actual plaintiffs in this case. In that case, we declined to "dra[w] one or more lines between categories of speech covered by an overly broad statute, when Congress has sent inconsistent signals as to where the new line or lines should be drawn" because doing so "involves a far more serious invasion of the legislative domain. Moreover, even if it were technologically feasible to block minors' access to newsgroups and chat rooms containing discussions of art, politics, or other subjects that potentially elicit "indecent" or "patently offensive" contributions, it would not be possible to block their access to that material and "still allow them access to the remaining content, even if the overwhelming majority of that content was not indecent." Nevertheless, the trial court found that the CDA failed strict scrutiny in two separate and independent respects. at ¶103; see also J.A. That danger provides further reason for insisting that the statute not be overly broad. In Sable, 492 U. S., at 129, this Court rejected the argument that we should defer to the congressional judgment that nothing less than a total ban would be effective in preventing enterprising youngsters from gaining access to indecent communications. Id. The respondent did not quarrel with the finding that the afternoon broadcast was patently offensive, but contended that it was not "indecent" within the meaning of the relevant statutes because it contained no prurient appeal. at 939 ("At oral argument, the Government's counsel conceded that strict scrutiny analysis is appropriate . Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC, 518 U. S. 727 (1996). It also found that "[a]lmost all sexually explicit images are preceded by warnings as to the content," and cited testimony that" 'odds are slim' that a user would come across a sexually explicit sight by accident." . . 10. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, No. . . . . 7Id., at 842 (finding 74). But the conferees explicitly rejected a "serious value for minors" exemption when they voted against the "harmful-to-minors" standard.28 See Conf.Rep. . . A state must prove a compelling interest in order to survive a legal challenge to the redistricting plan. Particularly in the light of the absence of any detailed congressional findings, or even hearings addressing the CDA's special problems, the Court is persuaded that the CDA is not narrowly tailored. 136-38, ¶¶1-12. A week later, based on his conclusion that the term "indecent" was too vague to provide the basis for a criminal prosecution, District Judge Buckwalter entered a temporary restraining order against enforcement of § 223(a)(1)(B)(ii) insofar as it applies to indecent communications. C. The Government's Reasons For Rejecting Strict Scrutiny Are Unpersuasive, Citing FCC v. Pacifica, 438 U.S. 726, the government argues that its power to regulate "indecent" speech on the Internet should be as broad as its power to regulate "indecent" radio broadcasts. 56,to be codified at47 U.S.C. at 35a-41a. . at 57a-58a, ¶¶113-14.15. . Second, the CDA is a criminal statute. . Federal Legislative Actions. Those paragraphs appear as an appendix to the Motion to Affirm in Reno v. ACLU, and are cited hereafter with the prefix "M.A.". . Rev. . Taken together, these tools constitute a unique medium-known to its users as "cyberspace" -located in no particular geographical location but available to anyone, anywhere in the world, with access to the Internet. Pursuant to this strict scrutiny analysis, the District Court held that COPA placed too large a burden on protected expression. Should they be? ACLU, 521 U.S. at 870, that content-based regulation of Internet speech is subject to that same strict scrutiny. Where a content-based regulation imposes criminal sanctions on protected speech, the question is not whether the burden "leaves open significant opportunities for adult-to-adult communication," id. Pp.874-879. But this. . . . The CDA is also both overbroad and vague. 1997); R. 1. Likewise, speakers who communicate in real time through chat rooms "cannot ensure that all readers are adults." One government witness testified that he "had no idea whether any of these adult verification systems would be feasible for nonprofit organizations that run largely or totally on volunteer labor." The government offered only hearsay evidence about third-party verification systems on the Web. . After the Senate adopted the Exon Amendment, however, its Judiciary Committee did conduct a one-day hearing on "Cyberporn and Children." . See Pope v. Illinois, 481 U. S. 497, 500 (1987). . (g) The § 223(e)(5) defenses do not constitute the sort of "narrow tailoring" that would save the CDA. . The scope of the CDA is also more expansive. His opinion explained at length why he believed the CDA would abridge significant protected speech, particularly by noncommercial speakers, while "[p]erversely, commercial pornographers would remain relatively unaffected." Vol. . . The CDA Is Not Narrowly Tailored To Address The Government's Newly Asserted Interest In Promoting Use Of The Internet. 41, KSD-FM,Notice of Apparent Liability,6 FCC Rcd. 1. . 64a-65a (Sloviter, J. Almost all sexually explicit images are preceded by warnings as to the content." Because both sections prohibit the dissemination of indecent messages only to persons known to be under 18, the Government argues, it does not require transmitters to "refrain from communicating indecent material to adults; they need only refrain from disseminating such materials to persons they know to be under 18." . We find it unnecessary to address those issues to dispose of this case. The breadth of the CDA's coverage is wholly unprecedented. . 56, 133-35. . Ms. Warren testified that electronic magazines for young people have proliferated precisely because the cost of production is much lower, and the distribution much simpler, than for print media. . Trades Council, 485 U. S. 568, 575 (1988) ("[W]here an otherwise acceptable construction of a statute would raise serious constitutional problems, the Court will construe the statute to avoid such problems unless such construction is plainly contrary to the intent of Congress"). . Freedom of Speech and Forms of Mass Communication ..... 1949 A. We agree with the District Court's conclusion that the CDA places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech, and that the defenses do not constitute the sort of "narrow tailoring" that will save an otherwise patently invalid unconstitutional provision. 33 Cf. Pp. . In addition, the ACLU hosts online discussions on a variety of civil liberties topics, ranging from efforts to censor Howard Stern's best-selling book, "Private Parts," to a discussion of masturbation as part of a larger debate over the firing of former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. . While the Conference Report states that the CDA is meant "to establish a uniform national standard of content regulation," Conf.Rep. The government's ambiguous interpretation leaves this, like many of the real world applications of the CDA, unclear and unconstitutionally vague. ¶21; Croneberger Test. 1996); S. D. Compo Laws Ann. Decl. See generally id. . J.S. . . . They generally also contain "links" to other documents created by that site's author or to other (generally) related sites. App. The government introduced no evidence at trial to support this assertion, and the trial court was not asked to make any findings on this point. The Supreme Court heard the case on Wednesday, March 19, 1997, and submitted its decision on Thursday, June 26, 1997. No such risk attends messages received through the Internet, which is not supervised by any federal agency. stances exists under which the Act would be valid"). In particular, criminal regulation of the Internet cannot be analogized to administrative regulation of broadcast, especially since none of the rationales that support regulation of broadcast apply to the Internet. See 47 U.S.C. This argument raises difficult issues … In Sable, 492 U. S., at 127, we remarked that the speech restriction at issue there amounted to "'burn[ing] the house to roast the pig.'" . For a more thorough description of the plaintiffs, see M.A. This argument ignores the fact that most Internet forums-including chat rooms, newsgroups, mail exploders, and the Web-are open to all comers. § 5-68-502 (1993); Cal. . . . Although the prospects for the eventual zoning of the Internet appear promising, I agree with the Court that we must evaluate the constitutionality of the CDA as it applies to the Internet as it exists today. Similarly, a parent who sent his 17-year-old college freshman information on birth control via e-mail could be incarcerated even though neither he, his child, nor anyone in their home community found the material "indecent" or "patently offensive," if the college town's community thought otherwise. In this Court, though not in the District Court, the Government asserts that-in addition to its interest in protecting children-its "[e]qually significant" interest in fostering the growth of the Internet provides an independent basis for upholding the constitutionality of the CDA. . . . mercial online services had almost 12 million individual subscribers at the time of trial. Each of the three judges wrote a separate opinion, but their judgment was unanimous. . . . . J.S. . For example, the ACLU posts online information that includes the text of the famous "Seven Dirty Words" comic monologue that was declared "indecent" in FCC v. Pacifica, 438 U.S. 726 (1978). Jon Healey, Fiber Optics Light the Way for Rapid Growth of the Internet, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, May 4, 1999, at 4F. at 41a-42a; see p.18, supra. App. 44. at 141a. ); J.A. In arguing for reversal, the Government contends that the CDA is plainly constitutional under three of our prior decisions: (1) Ginsberg v. New York, 390 U. S. 629 (1968); (2) FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U. S. 726 (1978); and (3) Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc., 475 U. S. 41 (1986). . See Pl.Exh. . . With him on the brief for appellees American Library Association et al. Vol. 5Id., at 831 (finding 3). Finally, the trial court issued extensive factual findings concerning the variety of voluntary measures available to restrict minors' access to online communications that their parents may consider unsuitable for them. 2374, 2393 (1996)(citations omitted)(Denver Area). . The second criminalizes the display of patently offensive messages or images "in a[ny] manner available" to minors ("display" provision). Normally, this fact would require the Court to reject a direct facial challenge. Supp., at 855-856. stitutional textual elements of the statute intact in the one place where they are, in fact, severable. . . . This Court has applied strict scrutiny to content-based regulations because "[a]t the heart of the First Amendment lies the principle that each person should decide for him or herself the ideas and beliefs deserving of expression, consideration, and adherence." App. The second prong of the Miller test-the purportedly analogous standard-contains a critical requirement that is omitted from the CDA: that the proscribed material be "specifically defined by the applicable state law." Id. 30. . . § 223(d)(1)(B). These precedents, then, surely do not require us to uphold the CDA and are fully consistent with the application of the most stringent review of its provisions. . . J.S. 26. Pp. . Although plaintiffs recognize that some members of this Court have upheld the "indecency" standard against vagueness challenges in other contexts, see Denver Area, at least three distinguishing factors support Judge Sloviter's and Judge Buckwalter's conclusion that, when applied to the global Internet, "indecency" is hopelessly vague. The medium allows "literally tens of millions of people . Unlike the CDA, zoning regulations impose only civil rather than criminal penalties for violation, and apply only to commercial businesses. . at 2393. . at 35, ¶13, ¶15, ¶16; see also M.A. . Rather, our decision in United States v. Treasury Employees, 513 U. S. 454, 479, n. 26 (1995), is applicable. Stuart Brotman Shiela Hawkins. 390 U. S., at 636. . Corp. v. PSC, 447 U.S. 557, 564 (1980). . Further, there was evidence that existing adult verification systems, to the extent they are used at all, are used "for accessing commercial pornographic sites [which] charge users for their services." . v. Alliance for Open Soc’y Int’l, Inc. Agins v. Tiburon Agostini v. Felton Akron v. Akron Center For Reproductive Health Alaska Hire case Alden v. Maine Allegheny County v. When Pacifica was decided, given that radio stations were allowed to operate only pursuant to federal license, and that Congress had enacted legislation prohibiting licensees from broadcasting indecent speech, there was a risk that members of the radio audience might infer some sort of official or societal approval of whatever was heard over the radio, see 556 F. 2d, at 37, n. 18. J.S. . See ibid. The plaintiffs in these consolidated cases illustrate the spectrum of individuals and organizations who use online computer networks to communicate, send, display and access information, including information that could be considered "indecent" or "patently offensive. . . The District Court categorically determined that there "is no effective way to determine the identity or the age of a user who is accessing material through e-mail, mail exploders, newsgroups or chat rooms." . But the trial court clearly found that the burden of age verification would literally require many speakers to cease engaging in constitutionally protected speech, regardless of the age of the reader. . The Court took an important step toward adapting its First Amendment jurisprudence to technological innovations. at 35a; see also id. . passim, Erznoznik v. City of Jacksonville,422 U.S. 205 (1975). Md. 118-19, as would a political discussion that included the sentiment "Fuck the CDA," Olsen testimony, Tr. . . First, it did not involve a total ban on "indecent" speech. In this context, these provisions are no different from the law we sustained in Ginsberg. See Section II.A, supra. Id. Title 47 U. S. C. § 223(a)(I)(B)(ii) (1994 ed., Supp. App 106a (Dalzell, J. Critical Path also sponsors online support groups, and provides low-cost Internet access to persons in the AIDS community. App. . . Ann. 390 U. S., at 633. II), while the second speaks of material that "in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs," § 223(d). App. 4. §313.1 (West Supp. . As Judge Dalzell further observed, "a Newspaper Decency Act passed because Congress discovered that young girls had read a front page article in The New York Times on female genital mutilation in Africa, would be [clearly] unconstitutional." 117a n.11 (Dalzell, J.). Supp., at 853. . It also provides a foundation for new forms of community -- communities based not on any accident of geographic proximity, but on bonds of common interest, belief, culture or temperament. ternet access. The doctrine of substantial overbreadth arose to permit facial challenges to laws that might have some permissible applications but that threaten a substantial quantity of constitutionally protected speech. The Court neither "accept[s] nor reject[s]" the argument that the CDA is facially overbroad because it substantially interferes with the First Amendment rights of minors. 26a-27a, ¶¶189-193. App. I. . E. The Inadequacy Of The Statutory Defenses. The Government's reasoning is also flawed. Id., at 639. § 45-8-206 (1995); Neb. . It further invokes this Court's admonition that, absent "countervailing considerations," a statute should "be declared invalid to the extent it reaches too far, but otherwise left intact." Notwithstanding the legitimacy and importance of the congressional goal of protecting children from harmful materials, we agree with the three-judge District Court that the statute abridges "the freedom of speech" protected by the First Amendment.1. Schempp Abood v. Detroit Board of Education Abrams v. U.S. ACLU v. Reno Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena Adkins v. Children’s Hospital Agency for Int’l Dev. See, e. g., Dombrowski v. Pfister, 380 U. S. 479, 494 (1965). . passim, Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. New York State Crimes Victims Bd.,502 U.S. 105 (1992). at 56a-58a, ¶¶108-116. Furthermore, "the government presented no testimony as to how such systems could ensure that the user of the password or credit card is in fact over 18." Id., at 839-842. Ann., Tit. The "indecency" and "patently offensive" provisions of the CDA are unquestionably content-based bans on protected speech, and thus are presumptively unconstitutional. See M.A. Decl. . . App. . . . 720, § 5/11-21 (1993); Ind. del. 12 Ibid. Since it was a content-specific law, a high level of scrutiny was appropriate. The government correctly conceded in the lower courts that the CDA must be subject to strict scrutiny because it is content-based. only what is fit for children.'" . 20 The Government offered no evidence that there was a reliable way to screen recipients and participants in such forums for. ALA Response at 25. The government also defends the CDA's criminal ban on adult speech on the grounds that there are no "equally effective" alternatives. The government appeals from a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA),1 which imposes criminal penalties on constitutionally protected speech occurring on the Internet. . at 50a, ¶92. Id. . As a practical matter, the Court also found. . § 223(e)(5)(B). Id. The Government thus failed to prove that the proffered defense would significantly reduce the heavy burden on adult speech produced by the prohibition on offensive displays. Stat. . Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union (96-511) Argued: March 19, 1997. Some Members of the House of Representatives opposed the Exon Amendment because they thought it "possible for our parents now to child-proof the family computer with these products available in the private sector." See also Erznoznik v. Jacksonville, 422 U. S. 205, 216 (1975) ("readily subject" to narrowing construction). Users generally explore a given Web page, or move to another, by clicking a computer "mouse" on one of the page's icons or links. See also Denver Area, 116 S.Ct. Denver Area Educational Television Consortium v. FCC, 518 U.S. __, 116 S.Ct. at 91-93a (Buckwalter, J. 879-881. Insofar as the "indecency transmission" and "specific person" provisions prohibit the use of indecent speech in communications between an adult and one or more minors, however, they can and should be sustained. 96-511. Thus, it is possible to construct barriers in cyberspace and use them to screen for identity, making cyberspace more like the physical world and, consequently, more amenable to zoning laws. . § 5903(c) (Supp. The Internet is thus distinct because it is "not exclusively, or even primarily, a means of commercial communication." 390 U.S. at 634-35. at 107a (Dalzell, J.). . 36 See Gozlon-Peretz v. United States, 498 U. S. 395, 404 (1991) ("[W]here Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion and exclusion" (internal quotation marks omitted)). Deputy Solicitor General Waxman argued the cause for appellants. How Communication Takes Place On The InternetE. 50a, ¶90. The preliminary injunction decision in this case is supported by 409 separate factual findings. Pp.868-870. "34 This dynamic, multifaceted category of communication includes not only traditional print and news services, but also audio, video, and still images, as well as interactive, real-time dialogue. . at 493. . All three judges agreed that the statute violated the First Amendment. . Several major national "online services" such as America Online, CompuServe, the Microsoft Network, and Prodigy offer access to their own extensive proprietary networks as well as a link to the much larger resources of the Internet. 146a (Dalzell, J.). Because there is no way for the vast majority of Internet speakers to distinguish between adults and minors in their audience, the CDA is the most restrictive censorship scheme imposed on any medium. . . The plaintiffs do not speak with a single voice or on a single issue. Content-based regulations of speech will be upheld only when they are justified by "compelling" governmental interests and "narrowly tailored" to effectuate those interests. . The overwhelming majority of the findings (334) were derived from a joint stipulation submitted by the parties.5 Those findings, which are not disputed by the government, comprehensively describe the plaintiffs, their speech, the nature of the Internet as a communications medium, the inadequacy of the statutory defenses relied on so heavily by the government, the ineffectiveness of the CDA in accomplishing its asserted goals, and the availability of less restrictive alternatives that enable parents (rather than the government) to decide what material their children should see. . App. The Government also draws on an additional, less traditional aspect of the CDA's severability clause, 47 U. S. C. § 608, which asks any reviewing court that holds the statute facially unconstitutional not to invalidate the CDA in application to "other persons or circumstances" that might be constitutionally permissible. As we have explained, the Government may not "reduc[e] the adult population ... to ... only what is fit for children." 1997); 18 Pa. Cons. The district court heard six days of testimony and a day of argument, and considered numerous affidavits and extensive documentary evidence submitted by both sides. II). Id. . See, e. g., id., at 126. . . As discussed above, the facts firmly establish that the CDA operates unconstitutionally for the overwhelming majority of online speakers -- speakers who communicate through mail exploders, newsgroups, chat rooms, and on the Web, and who either have no available technology for screening minors from their audience or who could not shoulder the economic and other unconstitutional burdens of compliance. . by Ronald D. Maines; for the Family Life Project of the American Center for Law and Justice by Jay Alan Sekulow, James M. Henderson, Sr., Colby M. May, Keith A. Fournier, John G. Stepanovich, and Thomas P. Monaghan; for Morality in Media, Inc., by Paul J. McGeady and Robert W Peters; and for James J. Clancy by Mr. Clancy, pro se, and Carol A. Clancy. 24 See Exon Amendment No. . Rev. As Ginsberg explained, material is obscene as to minors if it (i) is "patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable ... for minors"; (ii) appeals to the prurient interest of minors; and (iii) is "utterly without redeeming social importance for minors." Ante, at 881. For that reason, among many others, the government has yet to convince even a single federal judge that the statute, as written, can be sustained. Stat. 13a, ¶3. And as discussed below, I do not find that the provisions are overbroad in the sense that they restrict minors' access to a substantial amount of speech that minors have the right to read and view. 96-511. argued march 19, 1997-decided june 26, 1997 . .'" at 2393 (citations omitted). . . . Doe v. Shurtleff, 628 F.3d 1217 (10th Cir. 17a-19a, ¶¶145-154. 1996), reproduced as Appendix A of the government's Jurisdictional Statement. . 50 See also Osborne v. Ohio, 495 U. S. 103, 121 (1990) (judicial rewriting of statutes would derogate Congress' "incentive to draft a narrowly tailored law in the first place"). . On appeal, the government asserts that §223(a)(1)(B) and §223(d)(1) (A) apply to the same types of communication and differ only in the type of technology that they cover. It provides in pertinent part: "(1) in interstate or foreign communications-, "(B) by means of a telecommunications device knowingly-. . . He found no statutory basis for the Government's argument that the challenged provisions would be applied only to "pornographic" materials, noting that, unlike obscenity, "indecency has not been defined to exclude works of serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." 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