Porn, Sex-Toy Industry Sue to Block Montana Age-Verification Law

A coalition of sex-related businesses, educators, and writers sued to block the Montana attorney general from enforcing a state law requiring websites offering sexual content to verify users’ ages.

Montana’s Age Verification Act places liability for damages on commercial entities that knowingly distribute “material harmful to minors” without using reasonable methods to verify the ages of individuals seeking the content.

The complaint, filed Tuesday in US District Court for the District of Montana, argues that the law, which went into effect in January, violates by the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Montanans in several respects. The lawsuit, spearheaded ...