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To: Tai_Chung
Last year, Congress passed a law that bans the sale or rental of "sexually explicit" magazines, videos and recordings on military bases and ships. Congress paraded the law under the title of The Military Honor and Decency Act.

On Jan. 22, Judge Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York -- in a ringing defense of the First Amendment -- found the act unconstitutional and struck it down.

The act was sponsored by conservative Congressmen Christopher H. Smith (R-N.J.) and Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-Md.) and former Congressman Robert K. Dornan; and supported by the Christian Coalition, the Traditional Values Coalition, the Family Research Council, and other conservative groups.

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Judge Scheindlin has worked on some interesting cases, including that of an INS employee who paid dearly for "whistle blowing" on corruption and reverse discrimination here

36 posted on 04/30/2002 2:15:31 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: browardchad
Oops - bad links.

Corrections: The rest of the story

INS case here

40 posted on 04/30/2002 2:27:04 PM PDT by browardchad
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