It was the first time a nation's highest court had wrestled with the question of where something is actually published in the context of cyberspace.
Both before and after Riverside Bayview, the lower courts have wrestled with these questions.
He promised that the state would continue to operate under the budget the Legislature has passed while the courts wrestle with the constitutional questions.
"The courts are still wrestling with the issues and what some people view as a psychological illness, rather than an illness," he said.
The Bronx decision came as courts across the country were wrestling with questions about how to prosecute crimes when accusers would not appear for cross-examination.
It's not, however, as if the courts and the authorities haven't already wrestled with this question.
American courts are wrestling with issues of free speech and how to apply those rights to people speaking out over the Internet.
But while Congress and the courts wrestle with legalities of the music industry, file sharing is spreading to other creative works.
Ever since Canter, the federal courts have been wrestling with the division between legislative and judicial courts.
The state and lower federal courts have been wrestling for years with this question.