(AP) -- A federal appeals court agreed Tuesday with a lower court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
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George Harrison, after leaving The Beatles, wrote a song called the "Sue Me, Sue You, Blues" for his album, "Living in the Material World." "Hold the block on the money flow. Move it into joint escrow," wrote Harrison. "Court receiver, laughs and thrills. But in the end we just pay those lawyers their bills." Perhaps that tune would be an appropriate sound track for the legal drama unfolding in a London courtroom now? The Beatles' company, Apple Corps Ltd., is suing Apple Computer, Inc., claiming that the latter's iTunes.com music service violates a contract, experts are telling The Web. A ruling could come as early as this week.