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Child porn law peril to free expression
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880531
Author:Alan Dershowitz
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once cautioned us that hard cases make bad law. Well, emotional cases make even worse law. And few issues are more emotional than child pornography.
That is why the Supreme Court's announcement it will review a Massachusetts child pornography case is so worrisome to people concerned about freedom of expression.
In an effort to confront the evils of child pornography, Massachusetts enacted an extremely broad and general law making it a crime for any person to encourage or permit any "child" under 18 "to pose or be exhibited in a state of nudity" for the ...
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