The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a government attempt to resurrect the Child Online Protection Act of 1998, which has been repeatedly rebuffed by lower federal courts over a decade of judicial review. The justices let stand a unanimous ruling last July by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia declaring the law unconstitutional on First and Fifth Amendment grounds—which overturns COPA permanently.
Source: American Libraries
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