Technology has come a long way since the Court first struck down age-verification requirements. Age verification services are now effective, easily used, and secure enough to be widely deployed. However the Court rules in this particular case, the era of the online pornography free-for-all seems to be coming to a close.
The Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose ownership information, was blocked by a federal judge as beyond Congress’s authority.
In Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the court will hear arguments about whether a law that requires age-verification before accessing sexual speech online is constitutional. We are in court to protect free speech on and offline.
“We’re standing at the crossroads of some pretty significant internet law right now,” says Christopher Terry, associate professor of media law at the University of Minnesota.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear Republican former Iowa congressman Steve King's bid to avoid paying a small judgment for having used without permission an internet meme - the "Success Kid" photo of a determined-looking 11-month-old baby at the beach - to promote his 2020 reelection campaign.
Political observers wasted no time taking to social media Thursday evening after news hit that the Supreme Court would not rescue President-elect Donald Trump on the eve of his sentencing hearing. Despite the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority – cemented during Trump’s first term with his appointment of three justices – the high court in a