Indiana Age-Verification Law Goes Into Effect As Seventh Circuit Grants Stay of Preliminary Injunction

In a 2-1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has granted Indiana a stay of the preliminary injunction that was granted in June, allowing Act 17, the State’s age-verification law, to go into effect.  Adult businesses should be aware that the State’s Attorney General can now begin enforcing the law. Additionally, the law permits residents of Indiana to bring a civil suit against sites with “material harmful to minors.”

Free Speech Coalition’s challenge to Texas’s age-verification law is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court in the upcoming term. The Seventh Circuit panel majority ruled that since the Texas law remains in effect during the appeal, so should Indiana’s law.