The Free Speech Coalition said it’s weighing legal options as age-verification laws took effect Tuesday in multiple states.
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NetChoice asked a federal court on Monday to consider blocking a Utah age-verification law due to its similarity to a Mississippi age-verification law that was preliminarily enjoined.
NetChoice filed an additional lawsuit against Arkansas late Friday as it attempted to block a pair of measures that would amend the state’s 2023 Social Media Safety Act, which a court ruled unconstitutional in late March following a NetChoice challenge (see 2504010044).
TikTok on Thursday appealed a New York Supreme Court judge's May ruling that allowed a suit from the Attorney General's office against the social media platform to continue (see 2505280056). TikTok appealed to the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court, arguing the judge erred when it ruled the state's claims were not barred by the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to porn sites (see 2506270015 and 2501130012). The majority in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton sided with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in support of HB-1181, which the adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition said violates the First Amendment (see 2409170012).
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to porn sites. The ruling sided with Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in support of the state's HB-1181, which the Free Speech Coalition, an adult industry trade association, challenged in a 2023 lawsuit, saying it violated the First Amendment (see 2409170012).
The Colorado attorney general's office is seeking comments ahead of a planned rulemaking to implement kids privacy rules, it said Thursday. It must make rules to implement a 2024 bill (SB 24-041) that amended the Colorado Privacy Act to enhance protections for processing minors’ data.
A district court on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against a 2024 Georgia law aimed at protecting kids by requiring age verification and parental consent for minors to create social media accounts. However, Georgia's attorney general signaled that the state will continue to fight for the law.
A federal judge Wednesday denied Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's request for a stay of an injunction blocking a social media age-verification law. Fitch (R) asked for the injunction to be lifted while an appeal of case 24-00170 was pending at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2506200009).