Playboy Advocate Fights for Speech, Not Porn.(free speech case heard before the Supreme Court)
Multichannel News, June, 2000 by HEARN, TED
WASHINGTON -- Why was an esteemed member of the District of Columbia bar and a proud father of four demanding that the Supreme Court overturn a law that stopped kids from viewing, as conservative Justice Antonin Scalia put it, "Ravin' nymphos tear down the barn and light up the big country sky?" For First Amendment lawyer Robert Corn-Revere, the issue wasn't about pornography, but about principle.
Corn-Revere led Playboy Entertainment Group Inc.'s four-year effort to overturn a channel-scrambling law aimed at adult cable networks. On May 22, the Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that the law violated Playboy's free-speech rights. The decision was the first from the court to say that cable programming, however racy and indecent, enjoyed the...
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