United States Second Circuit

Plaintiffs have standing to challenge 13 V.S.A. section 2802a, which prohibits distributing sexually explicit materials to minors, and as applied to plaintiffs' internet speech, section 2802a violates the First Amendment because it burdens protected communications and is not narrowly tailored, and violates the dormant Commerce Clause because it projects Vermont's regulatory regime onto the rest of the nation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/06/2003
• Decided 08/27/2003
• Published 08/27/2003

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, POOLER, Circuit Judge, and GLEESON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael A. Bamberger,Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (Nolan Burkhouse, Sarah Shelburne North, Law Offices of Charles Platto, Norwich, VT, David Putter, Montpelier, VT, Markus Brakhan, Burlington, VT, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Joseph Leon Winn, Assistant Attorney General, Vermont Office of Attorney General, Montpelier, VT, for Defendants-Appellants.