Virginia Internet Case Reversed

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/12/1999

A law that prohibits state employees from looking at sexually explicit material on the Internet at work does not violate the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled February 10, according to the Associated Press. The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, the same judge who ruled against the Loudoun County Public Library's hard-line filtering policy. The state case was filed by six professors who argued that the law would infringe on their capacity for research; it's not clear whether they will appeal.