Comment Not really a free speech ruling (Score 4, Informative) 96
The actual ruling here is on a specific provision of the law where a seized domain owner to petition the courts to have the domains returned.
(Relevant part of the code here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/983.html)
The judge is merely ruling here that this provision doesn't meet the requirements of this specific provision.
The Judge continues, "Although some discussion may take place in the forums, the fact that visitors must now go to other websites to partake in the same discussions is clearly not the kind of substantial hardship that Congress intended to ameliorate in enacting 983. See 145 Cong. Rec. H4854-02 (daily ed. June 24, 1999) (statement of Rep. Hyde) (“Individuals lives and livelihoods should not be in peril during the course of a legal challenge to a seizure.”). Puerto 80 may certainly argue this First Amendment issue in its upcoming motion to dismiss, but the First Amendment considerations discussed here certainly do not establish the kind of substantial hardship required to prevail on this petition."