Sixth Circuit Revives Ohio’s Social Media Limits for Minors (2)

Challengers to Ohio’s law requiring children under age 16 to get consent from their parents to use social media failed to prove the law is unconstitutional, a split Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday.

NetChoice LLC, the group challenging the law, also lacks proper standing to challenge the Buckeye State’s law the way it sought, said Judge Eric L. Clay of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The organization isn’t the appropriate party to litigate children users’ rights, nor did it prove the law was improperly vague, he said.

The panel reversed a trial judge’s ruling that struck ...