The Arkansas journalism school is very lucky to have a faculty member who covered the U.S. Supreme Court as a reporter for the Associated Press. Professor Gina Shelton sometimes teaches media law online.

From Professor Shelton:

As a reporter at the Supreme Court I covered quite a few speech-related cases, including the 2002 child pornography case (discussed above). Another issue at the court about the same time involved filters on public library computers. Spinoff lawsuits have continued over the past decade and the Supreme Court may wade back into this again. Please read my story about the library computer filter case ruling:

• Supreme Court Upholds Library Web Filters

You can also study twospinoff cases:

• http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-361.ZS.html
• http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/filtering-and-first-amendment

the following questions:

1. How you think the case should have been decided? Be sure to back up your answer using some of the discussion below.
2. Now argue the other side: The opposite of how you think the case should have been decided. Again,back up your answer using some of the discussion below.
3. What are some of the future prospects of a challenge to the law as applied?