Last month, a U.S. District judge in Georgia found that the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 -- which requires male users of matchmaking Web sites to reveal their arrests or convictions for violent crimes -- does not restrict the commercial free speech rights of a site devoted to helping American men find "mail-order brides." The federal statute, passed in February 2006, could make such matchmaking businesses liable if the men who enroll lie about previous arrests or convictions.
April 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When a federal judge in Atlanta last year issued a restraining order halting enforcement of a law to protect “mail-order brides,” the president of an Alpharetta, Ga., Web site for men seeking foreign brides thought other judges would follow suit.
He was wrong.
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