Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu (Doug Krause) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Supreme Court Okays Dial-Porn Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 89 11:55:54 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Doug Krause Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 217, message 3 of 10 In article TELECOM@uunet.uu.net writes: >Just a short note in closing this issue of the Digest: I assume everyone >read the news in the paper over the weekend. The Supreme Court has ruled >that the telcos *cannot* disconnect the 1-900 and 976 porn lines unless >the services are specifically obscene Was it that telcos can't disconnect them, or that they couldn't be outlawed? Big difference. Douglas Krause CA Prop i: Ban Gummie Bears(tm)! University of California, Irvine ARPANET: dkrause@orion.cf.uci.edu Welcome to Irvine, Yuppieland USA BITNET: DJKrause@ucivmsa