Tennessee Age Gate Law Called Invalid Despite SCOTUS Ruling (1)

The trade association of the adult entertainment industry told a federal court Tuesday that their challenge to Tennessee’s age-verification law for websites offering pornography remains live following the US Supreme Court’s approval of a similar Texas law.

The high court’s ruling “does harm to” the Free Speech Coalition’s First Amendment claim, but “it is no death knell in this litigation,” the group said in a status update filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

The Supreme Court has ruled in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton that age-gate rules for pornography sites need only survive intermediate ...