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Telecom bill outlaws Supreme Court decisions

``` [By the way, the full telecom conference report is available on the Web at http://www.bell.com/legislation/creport.html ]

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Date: 2 Feb 1996 08:56:57 -0800 From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Telecom bill outlaws Supreme Court decisions

At long last, the full text of the Supreme Court's FCC v. Pacifica decision is online. This is the decision that constitutionally defines 'indecency'.

The decision itself contains many references to the words that made the material in question indecent. It also contains a full transcript of the indecent material.

Under the terms of the Telecom bill, soon to be law, making this Supreme Court decision generally available is a crime punishable by 2 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

You might think that because this decision is talking about indecency, it is exempt from indecency rules. If you read the decision you will find that there is no such exemption. The material that the Supreme Court found to be indecent was a radio program about indecency rules.

Welcome to the InfoFuture, where even case law must be kept under lock and key.

[The decision is available from the EFF's Legal archive.

http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/Cases/FCC_v_Pacifica/fcc_v_pacifica.decision ftp.eff.org, /pub/Legal/Cases/FCC_v_Pacifica/fcc_v_pacifica.decision ]