A federal court in Louisiana rejected a porn-industry group’s challenge to a state law requiring websites to verify the age of visitors before providing them with adult content.
Three state officials named as defendants in Free Speech Coalition’s lawsuit are immune from the allegations, because they don’t have authority to enforce the law, Judge Susie Morgan of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana said Wednesday.
The plaintiffs also lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because they couldn’t show the defendants were the cause of their injury or that the court had the power to issue injunctive ...
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