Supreme Court won't intervene in Net obscenity case
Justices uphold a ruling that dismissed an art photographer's objections to the Communications Decency Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively sidestepped new standards for online obscenity, ruling without comment Monday to affirm in New York. That special three-judge panel had declined to overturn disputed portions of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 federal law that makes it a crime to send obscene materials knowingly to minors via the Internet.
The law, which is no stranger to court scrutiny, had come