11.   A grand jury declines to indict Sturges on charges of creation and sale of obscene materials.

12.   A year later, Harvey was brought to trial in a local state court on the charges of selling obscene material.

13.   A Tennessee grand jury issued an indictment for making obscene material accessible to minors, a misdemeanor charge.

14.   According to Trueman, this guarantees that little effort will be made to stop individuals from distributing obscene materials on the Internet.

15.   But Buckwalter specifically said that his order on Thursday did not change current laws against displaying or transmitting outright obscene material over the Internet.

16.   But Giles said that some of the newsgroups had names that made it seem unlikely that they contained obscene materials.

17.   But the federal government already has the right to prosecute clearly obscene material.

18.   Dalton, a resident of Columbus, was charged under a state law that prohibits the creation of obscene material involving minors.

19.   Even if the police catch someone distributing or selling digital obscene material, the person could only be charged with a misdemeanor.

20.   Federal agents monitored America Online after customers and law enforcement agencies complained about obscene material on the network, according to the Justice Department.