Indiana Court Blocks Age Verification Law
Free Speech Coalition fully agrees with the decision of the District Court in Indiana preventing that state’s age verification law from taking effect on Monday, July 1.
Judge Richard L. Young handed down his decision today, granting FSC and our co-plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction on the grounds that SB17 is “likely facially unconstitutional under the First Amendment.” The injunction effectively stops the law from taking effect by preventing the Indiana Attorney General from taking any action to enforce it.
As FSC has repeatedly asserted, we can and should work to prevent minors’ from accessing age-inappropriate material and there are less burdensome solutions that do not violate the rights of legal adults to access the internet without enduring surveillance or risking their anonymity.
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Joining Free Speech Coalition as co-plaintiffs are an array of adult platforms and workers, including Aylo Premium LTD; Aylo Freesites LTD; Webgroup Czech Republic, A.S.; Sonesta Technologies, S.R.O.; Sonesta Media, S.R.O.; Yellow Production S.R.O.; Paper Street Media, S.R.O., Paper Street Media, LLC; Neptune Media, LLC; Mediame SRL, and Midus Holdings, Inc.
Attorneys for the Plaintiffs are Michael T. Zeller, Derek L. Shaffer, Taylor E. Comerford, and Arian Koochesfahani of Quinn Emanuel Urqhart & Sullivan, LLP, Kian Hudson of Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, and Jeffrey Sandman of Webb Daniel Friedlander, LLP.
Read the Court’s decision granting the injunction and enjoining enforcement.
