FREE SPEECH COALITION v. RENO

No. 97-16536.

198 F.3d 1083 (1999)

THE FREE SPEECH COALITION, on its own behalf and on behalf of its members; Bold Type, Inc.; Jim Gingerich; Ron Raffaelli, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Janet RENO, Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Louis Sirkin, Sirkin, Pinales, Mizibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, Ohio, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Jacob M. Lewis, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. for the defendants-appellees.

Michael A. Bamberger, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae.

Before: Warren J. Ferguson and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges, and Donald W. Molloy, District Judge.


Opinion by Judge MOLLOY; Dissent by Judge FERGUSON.

MOLLOY, District Judge:

I.

The question presented in this case is whether Congress may constitutionally proscribe as child pornography computer images that do not involve the use of real children in their production or dissemination. We hold that the First Amendment prohibits Congress from enacting a statute that makes criminal the generation of images of fictitious children engaged in imaginary...

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