The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will decide disputes over online access to pornography in Texas, Food and Drug Administration approval of e-cigarettes and a federal sentencing law, adding to the issues it will tackle in the next term that starts in October.
The Texas case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, comes from challengers backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other free speech groups to a state law which requires pornography websites to verify a user’s age before allowing them to access content “harmful to minors.”
The groups said the law places too many burdens on adults’ ability to access adult content to be constitutional, which includes exposing their personal information over the internet.
