United States v. Elcom Ltd.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Divorcing the function from the message . . . is precisely what the courts have done in other contexts . . . . Accordingly, the court concludes that intermediate scrutiny, rather than strict scrutiny, is the appropriate standard to apply.”
• “[c]omputer software is . . . speech that is protected at some level by the First 28 Amendment”
• “while it is not unlawful to circumvent for the purpose of engaging in fair use, it is unlawful to traffic in tools that allow fair use circumvention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).