Supreme Court Schedules Arguments in Texas Case for Jan 15, 2025

Oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v Paxton, the Texas age-verification case, have been scheduled to take place on January 15, 2025 before the U.S. Supreme Court. Free Speech Coalition and co-plaintiffs are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.

The Court accepted the case, granting FSC’s petition for certiorari, in July. Free Speech Coalition filed its merits brief in September. 

“While Texas’ law may sound reasonable on its face, in practice, it is extraordinarily burdensome and invasive, effectively deterring adults from accessing legal content,” said Alison Boden, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition. “To make matters worse, this law – and ones like it – fail at their stated goal of protecting children online, despite forcing adult content creators and consumers to operate under the threat of surveillance and censorship. We look forward to making our case before the Court.”

Attorneys for the Plaintiffs are David D. Cole, Vera Eidelman, Brian Hauss, Ben Wizner, Brian Klosterboer, Edgar Saldivar, Adriana Piñon, Cloe Kempf, and Thomas Buser-Clancy of the American Civil Liberties Union; Derek L. Shaffer, Christopher G. Michel, Rachel G. Frank, Michael T. Zeller, Arian Koochesfahani, Delaney Gold-Diamond, Taylor E. Comerford, Daniel F. Mummolo, and Max Diamond of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP; and Jeffrey K. Sandman of Webb Daniel Friedlander, LLP.

More on Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas can be found here.