Porn Industry Group Sues to Block Florida Age-Verification Law

An adult-entertainment industry trade group sued Florida’s attorney general over the state’s law requiring websites offering sexual content to verify users’ ages, seeking to have it declared unconstitutional and bar enforcing it.

Florida’s Verification Act imposes a burden on protected speech and doesn’t actually protect minors from harmful materials they could obtain via other means, Free Speech Coalition Inc. said in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida. The law violates the First and Fourteenth amendments, it said.

The group’s suit was joined by businesses including sexual-health education platform Deep Connection Technologies ...