Utah Porn Age-Check Law’s Enforcement Weighed at Tenth Circuit

A Tenth Circuit panel hearing arguments over the adult entertainment industry’s rejected attempt to block Utah’s online age-verification law focused on the enforcement roles of the two-state officials a lower court found the suit improperly targeted.

Appellants led by the Free Speech Coalition, an adult content trade association, on Wednesday asked the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to overturn a Utah federal court ruling dismissing their lawsuit that sought to block implementation of the law requiring websites with explicit content to verify users’ ages. Attorneys for the state, meanwhile, argued that no state officials have sufficient enforcement ...