Welcome to Ohio, Where it’s “Common Sense” to Jail Minors for Looking at Porn, Evidently
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Look, I’ve got nothing against Ohio. My own father grew up there, 75% of my siblings were born there, the state is host to the Rock & ...
Tag: civil litigation
State Laws and the Madness of “No Particular Duty to Enforce”
If you’ve been following the Free Speech Coalition’s challenges to age-verification mandates passed by states like Utah and Louisiana, then you know FSC has repeatedly run into the problem of ...
Louisiana Court Dismissing Part of FSC Case Isn’t a Shock, Or the End of the Story
NEW ORLEANS, La. – When U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan granted the state’s motion to dismiss the Free Speech Coalition lawsuit challenging §2800.29 – a section of Louisiana law enacted ...
North Carolina Joins the Age-Verification Crowd with “PAVE Act”
RALEIGH, N.C. – Late last week, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to append an age-verification mandate for adult websites to an unrelated measure that added a computer science class ...
Wherefore Art Thou, Age-Verification Lawsuits?
SALT LAKE CITY – Last month, a district court in Utah dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) and other plaintiffs challenging the state’s age verification mandate, ...
FSC Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Texas Anti-Porn Law
AUSTIN, Texas – in an order issued today, US District Court Judge David Ezra granted a motion for preliminary injunction filed by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) in the organization’s ...
FSC Files Suit Challenging Texas’ Age-Verification Mandate
The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced Friday it has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s unconstitutional age-verification law, House Bill 1181 (hereafter, “the Act”), which was signed ...
Court Dismisses Challenge to Utah Age-Verification Law; FSC to Appeal
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – In an order issued yesterday, United States District Judge Ted Stewart dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition and other plaintiffs challenging the ...
Utah Asks Court to Dismiss FSC Lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – In a recently-filed motion, Jess L. Anderson, the Commissioner of the Utah Department of Public Safety and Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, the named ...
FSC Sues Louisiana Over Age Verification Mandate
The Free Speech Coalition announced yesterday that it has filed a legal challenge in Louisiana over the state’s “unconstitutional age-verification law,” noting that the state’s law “gives the state the ...
