Editing Catherine Yronwode (section)

=====Legal cases=====
During her time at Eclipse, Yronwode was involved in three court cases related to [[free speech]]/[[free expression]] under the First Amendment.
*In the 1986 ''Illinois v. Correa'' obscenity case, which led to the founding of the [[Comic Book Legal Defense Fund]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://cbldf.org/about-us/case-files/cbldf-case-files/correa/ |title=CBLDF Case Files — Illinois v. Correa &#124; Comic Book Legal Defense Fund |work=cbldf.org |year=2015 |access-date=17 October 2015}}</ref> Yronwode was an expert witness for the defense.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbldf.org/research/biblio-80s.html |title=Censorship of Comics Bibliography: 1980s |publisher=[[Comic Book Legal Defense Fund]] |access-date=2006-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060912133322/http://www.cbldf.org/research/biblio-80s.html |archive-date=September 12, 2006 }}</ref>
*In 1992, the convicted [[serial killer]] [[Kenneth Bianchi]], one-half of the pair known as the [[Hillside Strangler]]s, sued Yronwode for [[USD]]$8.5 million for having an image of his face depicted on a trading card; he claimed his face was his trademark. The judge dismissed the case after ruling that, if Bianchi had been using his face as a trademark when he was killing women, he would not have tried to hide it from the police.<ref>"Serial Killer Sues Trading Card Maker", ''San Jose Mercury News,'' December 18, 1992</ref><ref>"Card-Carrying Rebels: Two Guerrilla Journalists Turn Crime and Crises into Camp Collectibles" by Kathleen Donnelly, ''San Jose Mercury News'' (newspaper), January 10, 1993</ref>
*Also in 1992, Eclipse was a plaintiff when [[Nassau County, New York]], seized a crime-themed trading card series of theirs under a county ordinance prohibiting sales of certain trading cards to minors.<ref>"Nassau County Limits Sale of Crime Trading Cards". ''The New York Times'' (newspaper), June 16, 1992</ref> The case, in which Yronwode testified and the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] provided Eclipse's representation, reached the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals]]. It ruled against the county, overturning the ordinance.<ref>"Nassau Is Faulted for Law Over Killer Trading Cards", ''The New York Times'' (newspaper), October 17, 1995</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/arts/topic.aspx?topic=comix |title=Arts & First Amendment Issues: Comic Books |publisher=[[First Amendment Center]] |access-date=2006-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20041221024840/http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/speech/arts/topic.aspx?topic=comix |archive-date=December 21, 2004 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1129335.html |title=ECLIPSE ENTERPRISES INC v. GULOTTA &#124; FindLaw |work=caselaw.findlaw.com |year=2015|access-date=17 October 2015}}</ref>