Porn Industry Group Sues To Block Tennessee Age-Verification Law

The adult-entertainment industry sued Tennessee’s attorney general over the state’s law requiring websites offering sexual content to verify users’ ages, arguing it violates the First Amendment.

The Protect Tennessee Minors Act operates as a presumptively unconstitutional prior restraint on speech by requiring age checks as a condition to providing material, Free Speech Coalition Inc. said in a complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The suit asked the court to block state Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti from enforcing the law, which carries both civil and criminal penalties.

The law, signed by Gov. Bill ...