“This law, if allowed to go into effect, will prevent adults and older teen-agers from being able to obtain a huge amount of public speech,” said Charles Sims, an attorney at New York’s Proskauer Rose. He is pro bono counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of several libraries and patrons, and Internet providers.
The plaintiffs include library patrons who have sought information about health issues like breast cancer, a teen-ager who sought Internet information about lesbian issues, Planned Parenthood and a Republican candidate for Congress whose Web site was blocked by an Internet filter.
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