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The US Supreme Court will scrutinize a Texas law that requires porn sites to verify the age of users, agreeing to hear an industry trade group’s contentions that the measure violates the constitutional rights of adults.
The challengers told the justices in a filing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit “openly defies” Supreme Court precedent on free speech to uphold the law. “While purportedly seeking to limit minors’ access to online sexual content,
A state law passed last year requires pornographic websites to adopt age-verification measures, leading sites like Pornhub to block user access in Texas.
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the President of the United States is above the law, and now it may determine what sites you can jerk it to.
The Supreme Court will weigh a Texas law that requires pornography websites to verify the age of users after it agreed Monday to hear oral arguments over an industry trade group’s dispute that the requirement violates constitutional rights.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to a law in Republican-led Texas that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of visitors in order to limit minors' access to online sexual content.
A bill to push pornographic websites to implement age-verification software appears to still be on a glide path through the Legislature, after a hearing Tuesday in the Senate Judiciary Committee saw bipartisan support for it.
A Texas law requiring age-verification for pornographic websites is being challenged by the porn industry because they say it violates free speech protections.
The judicial injunction halting enforcement of Indiana's age verification mandate for adult-oriented websites is likely to remain in effect until at least next year.
Two laws requiring age verification online have been paused by federal courts. The laws in Indiana and Mississippi are now on hold as legal challenges to them play out. The Indiana law ( Senate Bill 17) says visitors to websites that display pornography or other "adult oriented" content that is "harmful to minors" must submit a copy of their driver's license or otherwise verify that they're at least 18 years old.
Popular adult websites are blocking access by users in more states as the push and pull between online age verification advocates and pornographers widens.
In March, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that Texas could continue enforcing the law while litigation continues. In a 2-1 decision, 5th Circuit judges wrote that "the age-verification requirement is rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in preventing minors' access to pornography.
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider a free speech challenge to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users’ ages, months after a federal appeals court ruled the state could enforce the measure—which supporters argue is meant to protect children from explicit content while opponents warn it could violate adult users’ privacy.
As of today, online pornography publishers and distributors now require age verification to prevent minors from accessing harmful material on the internet.
Supreme Court to decide cases over online porn access, vapes