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echo: askacop
to: ALAN RACKMILL
from: RICH GRIEBEL
date: 1998-01-24 19:04:00
subject: Censorship

-> MSGID: 1:107/101.0 4c9e93e3
-> RICH GRIEBEL wrote in a message to CHARLES HUNTER:
-> The Anarchist's Cookbook.
Yeah, thats the one...
->  RG> Finally a group took, I believe it was Berkley PD, to court
->  RG> over taking the book as a violation of the 1st amendment.
->  RG> And the USSC ruled on the case, but I don't remember what
->  RG> the ruling was and can't find it in the USSC database?
-> Considering the fact that it is still available in many libraries, I 
-> would presume that there was a favorable ruling.
Ok, maybe now I can find the ruling.  If I remember correctly, the
ruling showed that the publishing of a set of instructions does not lend
to commission of a crime.  They used several novels that detailed
commission of crimes as examples.  Back to my search...
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