Publishers Weekly, October 19th, 1990
Simon & Schuster has lost its First Amendment challenge to New York State's "Son of Sam" law that prevents criminals from profiting from their crimes at the expense fo their victims.
At the press time the publisher had not yet decided whether to appeal the decision.
In the October 3 decision, two judges of a three-member panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit acknowledged that the statute--Section 632-a--could remove the incentive for criminals to tell the stories of their crimes and so deprive the public of information on social issues. But, the court said, the state ha...
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