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28 Aug

L.A. Bookstore With Book Sense Becomes Location for New CBS TV Show

God's ways, always mysterious, are downright bewildering in Joan of Arcadia, a new CBS program premiering on September 26. Typical teenager Joan (played by Amber Tamblyn) is commanded by God, in the forms of a cute guy and a lunch lady, to get a job in a bookstore -- an independent no less. If the set has an uncanny similitude to a real bookstore, don't credit divine intervention -- the show is shot in Skylight Books, a seven-year-old bookstore in Los Angeles, not far from the studios of Hollywood.

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28 Aug

Looking to Raise Patriot Act Support, Ashcroft Raises Only Questions

In a move that many believe was sparked by the overwhelming House vote to withhold funding for "sneak and peek" searches of private property under the USA Patriot Act, Attorney General John Ashcroft embarked on a nationwide tour last week to drum up support for the controversial bill. "I think it [the vote to limit sneak and peak searches] caught the Justice Department by surprise, as it did all of us," said Chris Finan, president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE).

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28 Aug

Appeals Court Affirms Vermont Internet Law Is Unconstitutional

On August 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York affirmed a Vermont federal district court decision holding a Vermont Internet law unconstitutional under both the First Amendment and the federal Commerce Clause. The law, which prohibited the distribution on the Internet of non-obscene sexually explicit materials that are defined as "harmful to minors" if they could be accessed by persons under 18, was found by the Court of Appeals to burden speech protected by the First Amendment and to not be narrowly tailored.

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28 Aug

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Fox's Attempt to Block Franken Book Not Fair, Judge Rules

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