Porn-Site Age Verification Law Tests Supreme Court Precedent

A challenge to a Texas law that aims to keep kids from viewing pornography online asks the US Supreme Court to choose between decisions it issued before and after the internet was invented.

The case scheduled to be argued Wednesday could have major implications for future disputes over free speech, internet privacy, and censorship depending on which approach the justices say prevails. That’s because they require courts to use different standards of review when determining whether laws like the age verification requirement for porn sites in Texas violate the First Amendment.

Adult film producers and a trade group for the ...