Attorneys representing adult entertainers, erotica authors and sex educators on Wednesday asked a judge to put on hold a Utah law requiring porn and other adult websites verify user ages.
The Utah State Capitol is shown on March 3, 2023, in Salt Lake City. Adult entertainment industry lobbyists have filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a new Utah law requiring porn sites implement age verification mechanisms to block minors from accessing sexually explicit materials.
Free Speech Coalition attorney Gill Sperlein said the hold was needed because the First Amendment and financial harms the law inflicted on publishers of websites subject to the law were well underway and would continue over the course of the two or three years it takes to resolve the case. The state now has time to file a response before the judge makes a decision.
Those groups, the request to put the law on hold said, incur "constitutional injury every day the Act remains in effect." It's currently illegal under federal law to show children pornography, though limits are rarely enforced and courts have for decades weighed the restrictions against concerns brought up by enforcement mechanisms.
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