State laws requiring pornography websites to verify the age of users will remain in place following a major decision the Supreme Court issued on June 27.
The case, Free Speech Coalition Inc. v. Paxton, concerns a Texas law known as HB 1181 that imposes $10,000-per-day fines on website operators that fail to implement age-verification measures. The penalty rises to $250,000 if minors access sexual material covered by the law.
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold the law. If the justices had struck down the Texas law, similar laws in other states would have been in legal jeopardy. However, the new ruling may encourage other states to pass age-verification laws now that they know they are constitutional….