Utah and the 1st Amendment

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site has a report of a coalition the organization has joined.  The coalition is working to have one of Utah’s proposed statues defeated.  The statue is on censoring the Internet and was passed in 2005, but has not been enforced.  It is currently in the courts – Florence v. Shurtleff, No. 05-CV-485 in the United States District Court, District of Utah.  The law “seeks to regulate all Internet speech that some might consider ‘harmful to minors’, including works of visual art, photography, graphic novels, and information about sexual health and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth”.  Jump of to the site for the full article.

http://cbldf.org/homepage/booksellers-artists-aclu-seek-to-bar-utah-law-restricting-speech-on-internet/