freedomforum.org: Federal judge quashes subpoena for Kansas bookstore's sales records

[Declan McCullagh]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:55:45PM +0200, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
> But why should this be limited to the book stores? The same should go for
> laudries etc. In this sense we *are* talking about privileges to those
> dealing with 1st Amendment protected material, like the press and book
> stores. Declan's problem obviously is that while free speech has
> constitutional protection in itself, here *privacy* is protected only via
> extension of the 1st Amendment protection. This isn't enough.

That's a nice way to word it, and sums my thoughts up nicely.

-Declan