Porn Age-Check Ruling Staves Off Free Speech Challenge, for Now

As the US Supreme Court considers a free speech challenge to Texas’ adult-content age-verification law, lower federal courts are focusing on who has standing to contest laws aimed at limiting youth access to online pornography.

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this month affirmed a lower court’s finding that the adult content trade association Free Speech Coalition Inc. can’t sue Utah officials to block the state’s age-check law because the statute exclusively relies on a private right of action for enforcement. The decision came a year after a federal judge dismissed some claims in the group’s similar ...