Age Verification Resources > AV Lawsuit Status
Cases in Progress
Keep track of our challenges to unconstitutional age verification laws
- Indiana
- Montana
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Utah
Most Recent Update: July 25, 2024 – The District Court denied the Attorney General’s request to put the law into effect while it appeals the preliminary injunction ruling.
Coming Next: TBD
Case History
| June 28, 2024 | The District Court granted a preliminary injunction against the law preventing the Attorney General from enforcing it! |
| June 26, 2024 | We filed our response to Indiana’s opposition to a preliminary injunction. |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Indiana opposed our request for a preliminary injunction. |
| Jun 10, 2024 | FSC & co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit challenging the Indiana law’s constitutionality and a motion for preliminary injunction to keep the law from going into effect on July 1, 2024. Read our announcement. |
Most Recent Update: June 24, 2024 – Montana filed a motion to dismiss our case.
Coming Next: Our response to Montana’s motion to dismiss
| May 14, 2024 | FSC & co-plaintiffs filed lawsuit challenging the Montana law’s constitutionality. Read our announcement. |
Most Recent Update: March 28, 2024 – The judge granted our request to put the case on hold, pending the outcome of our petition to the Supreme Court in the Texas case.
Case History
| Nov 6, 2023 | We appealed the partial dismissal of our case to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Louisiana filed their response to our lawsuit |
| Oct 4, 2023 | The judge granted the state’s motion to dismiss part of the case |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Hearing on our motion for a preliminary injunction to block the government from enforcing the law |
| Sep 22, 2023 | The judge requested briefing from the state about age verification providers |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Louisiana updated their motion to dismiss the case |
| Jul 10, 2023 | Louisiana filed a motion to dismiss our case |
| Jun 22, 2023 | FSC filed a motion for preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Louisiana’s laws |
| Jun 20, 2023 | FSC & co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit challenging the Louisiana law’s constitutionality |
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Full appeal history and documents
Most Recent Update: July 2, 2024 – The Supreme Court granted our petition for certiorari! Read our statement here.
Coming Next: Supreme Court briefing
Case History
| Jun 20, 2024 | Our case was on the agenda for consideration by the Justices. While not was not one of the seven cases the Court agreed to hear at that meeting, it was not one of the 81 that they denied. |
| Jun 04, 2024 | Reply of petitioners Free Speech Coalition, et al. filed. |
| May 30, 2024 | Brief of respondent Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas in opposition filed |
| May 16, 2024 | Four groups of amici filed briefs in support of our petition for a writ of certiorari: International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Electronic Frontier Foundation and Woodhull Freedom Foundation American Booksellers for Free Expression, Authors Guild, Inc. Association of American Publishers, Inc., Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and Freedom to Read Foundation |
| Apr 26, 2024 | The Supreme Court denied our application for a stay of the 5th Circuit’s decision. Read FSC’s statement on the decision. |
| Apr 12, 2024 | We filed a petition for a writ of certiorari requesting that the 5th Circuit decision be stayed and overturned by the Supreme Court. |
| Mar 7, 2024 | The United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit handed down a mixed opinion, barring the state from mandating pseudoscientific “health warnings” on adult websites while lifting the injunction against the state’s age verification mandate. Read FSC’s statement on the decision. |
| Nov 14, 2023 | The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals converted the administrative stay of the preliminary injunction to a merits stay (for more, read our statement about what this means) |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Texas replied to our opposition |
| Oct 24, 2023 | We opposed the state’s motion to dismiss |
| Oct 11, 2023 | Texas filed a motion to dismiss our case |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Hearing re: Texas’ appeal of our preliminary injunction in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Sep 26, 2023 | The ACLU, CDT, EFF, FIRE, Media Coalition, and TechFreedom filed an amicus brief in support of our case in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Sep 19, 2023 | The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay of the preliminary injunction, allowing the law to take effect. |
| Aug 31, 2023 | The judge ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the Texas law from taking effect! (read our announcement) |
| Aug 23, 2023 | Hearing on our motion for preliminary injunction |
| Aug 8, 2023 | The judge set a hearing date for the preliminary injunction: August 23 |
| Aug 4, 2023 | FSC & co-plaintiffs filed a lawsuit and a motion for preliminary injunction to block the law from taking effect (read our statement) |
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Full appeal history and documents
Supreme Court case information
Most Recent Update: March 20, 2024 – In-person oral argument at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals
Coming Next: A decision from the 10th Circuit
Case History
| Sep 27, 2023 | FSC filed an appeal at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Aug 11, 2023 | FSC notified the court of our intent to appeal the ruling dismissing the case to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Aug 1, 2023 | The judge granted Utah’s motion to dismiss the case (read our statement) |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Utah filed a motion to dismiss our lawsuit |
| May 31, 2023 | FSC filed a motion for preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of the law |
| May 3, 2023 | FSC & co-plaintiffs filed lawsuit challenging the law’s constitutionality |
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Full appeal history and documents
Last Updated: July 25, 2024