Supreme Court Ruling Strengthens Position of Internet-Pornography Law.

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: May 14, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Reid Kanaley

May 14--A U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday revived the possibility that a 1998 law regulating Internet pornography could eventually be enforced.

The court sent a case involving the law back to a panel of federal judges in Philadelphia for further argument. The law -- never implemented -- would require visitors to sexually explicit Web sites to provide proof of age with a credit card or other registration system before viewing adult material.

Supporters of the law were jubilant. The decision "is a clear victory for children, their parents and ...

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