Judge appears supportive of Playboy's challenge.

Multichannel News, October, 1997 by Hearn, Ted

WASHINGTON - A federal judge last week indicated support for Playboy Entertainment Group Inc.'s claim that a sex-channel-scrambling law is too vague to be valid under the First Amendment. U.S. Circuit Judge Jane Roth, at a 90-minute federal court hearing Oct. 7 in Wilmington, Del., repeatedly pressed a Department of Justice attorney to explain how Playboy is to comply with the law when key wording in it was loft undefined.

While Roth appeared to have strong concerns about the DOJ's case, she wrote the opinion last year that upheld the scrambling law passed by Congress in 1996 for the Federal Communications Commission to enforce. But Playboy's chances of reversing that ruling may have improved after the Supreme Court struck down the Internet-smut law in...

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