January 19, 2001
Supreme Court Rebuffs Professors' Challenge to a Virginia Law on Internet Use
The U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to take up a challenge to a Virginia law that bars state employees from viewing sexually explicit material over the Internet using state-owned computers. Six professors had asked the court to consider the case, arguing that the law violated their academic freedom.
The court's decision left standing a June ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., which upheld the law. The state argued that the law prevents
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