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022705P.pdf   03/21/2003  State of Missouri  v.  American Blast
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-2705
                          and No:  02-2707
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil case - Constitutional law. Provisions of 47 U.S.C. 
   Sec. 227(b)(1)(C) regulating unsolicited faxes satisfies the 
   constitutional test for regulation of commercial speech and 
   did not violate defendants' First Amendment rights; there is 
   a substantial government interest in protecting the public 
   from the cost shifting and interference cause by the 
   unwanted fax ads, and the means Congress has chose to 
   address those harms directly and materially advances the 
   governmental interest; district court erred in finding the 
   provisions unconstitutional and the case is remanded for 
   further proceedings.