Petitioners To High Court: 5th Circuit Erred In Review Of Texas Porn Age Law

( September 17, 2024, 3:02 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Adult entertainment industry petitioners and their nonprofit trade association on Sept. 16 filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of their argument that the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in applying a “rational-basis review rather than strict scrutiny” to a Texas law that requires the operators of pornographic websites to verify that their visitors are adults, which the petitioners argue “imposes a content-based burden on adults’ access to constitutionally protected speech.”...