Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union

Invalidated broad federal restrictions on indecent online communications as violating the First Amendment.

Evidence ID
evidence:v724:bf76e955b8f45c0b222d
Issue
Youth Digital Wellbeing & Online Safety
Verification
VERIFIED_BOUNDED_EVIDENCE_PROPOSITION
Support direction
CONTRADICTS_OR_LIMITS
Publisher
Cornell Legal Information Institute; opinion authored by the U.S. Supreme Court
Jurisdiction
United States

Exact source

Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union

Scope and limitations

Does not prevent narrower regulation of obscenity, child sexual abuse material, commercial conduct or valid age protections.

Verification is bounded to the recorded proposition. It does not independently verify the complete issue or establish every relationship that might be plausible.

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Record type
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Publication/readiness state
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Model/method version
Preserved governed method; rendered through the v7.44 reader-first template
As-of/currentness date
Page projection 2026-08-30; source dates remain record-specific
Source uses
Record-specific source uses remain in the underlying governed artifact
Exact locators
Displayed only when supplied by the governed record; missing locators remain missing
Limitations
Route presence and computational output are not evidence; missingness remains explicit.
Counterevidence state
Not inferred; unknown or not evaluated remains explicit
Review/governance history
Deterministic release lineage; no human truth adjudication added
Correction path
Structured correction packet
Release provenance
Release 7.44 metadata