PLAYBOY ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC., and Graff-Pay-Per-View Inc., Plaintiffs
v.
UNITED STATES of America, United States Department of Justice Janet Reno, Attorney General, and the Federal Communications Commission, Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Delaware.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 8, 1996.
November 8, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
A. Gilchrist Sparks, III, and Katharine R. Witherspoon, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE (Burton Joseph, of Barsy, Joseph & Lichtenstein, Chicago, IL, Robert Corn-Revere, Jean S. Moore, Ronald J. Wiltsie, II, of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, DC), for Plaintiff, Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc.
William D. Johnston, and John W. Shaw, of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, DE (Charles S. Sims, and John Siegal, of Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn LLP, New York City, Daniel Barsky, Graff Pay-Per-View Inc., New York City), for Plaintiff, Graff Pay-Per-View Inc.
Gregory M. Sleet, United States Attorney, Patricia Hannigan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, John J. Polk, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Wilmington, DE; Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Dennis G. Linger, Theodore C. Hirt, James J. Gilligan, Joseph V. Jest, and Sarah L. Wilson, of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC; (Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate General Counsel, Susan Fox, Office of the General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission), for Defendants.
Robert J. Katzenstein, of Smith, Katzenstein & Furlow, Wilmington, DE (Michael A. Bamberger, and Margaret A. Jacobs, of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, New York City), for Amici Curiae, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, Association of American Publishers, Counsel for Periodical Distributors of The Americas, Feminists for Free Expression, Freedom to Read Foundation, Interactive Digital Software Association, International Periodical Distributors Association, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., National Association of College Stores, Inc., National Association of Recording Merchandisers, Periodical and Book Association of America, Inc., Publishers Marketing Association, of America, Inc., and Video Software Dealers Association.
Henry N. Herndon, Jr., and Eric D. Schwartz, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, DE (Patrick D. Maines, of The Media Institute, Washington, DC; Robert M. O'Neill, and Joshua Wheeler, of The Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression, Charlottesville, VA), for Amici Curiae, Thomas Jefferson Center for The Protection of Free Expression and The Media Institute.
Before: ROTH, Circuit Judge, FARNAN and SIMANDLE, District Judges.
United States District Court, D. Delaware.
OPINION
ROTH, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs in this action, Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. ("Playboy") and Graff Pay-Per-View ("Graff"), challenge the constitutionality of section 505 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ("the CDA" of "the Act"), which is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub.L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56. Congress enacted section 505 in an effort to eliminate signal bleed, i.e., the partial reception of...
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