Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Bernstein v. United States is the ongoing court case brought by Professor Bernstein challenging restrictions on publication of encryption material. First brought in 1995, the court case won a landmark decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that software was speech protected by the First Amendment and that the governments regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional. The government modified the regulations, substantially loosening them, and Bernstein is back in district court challenging them again. This time, he chose to represent himself, although he has no formal legal training. On October 15, 2003, almost nine years since Bernstein first brought the case, the judge dismissed it and asked Bernstein to come back when the government made a "concrete threat". Bernstein's website on the case This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.