Oral arguments in Free Speech Coalition v Paxton, the Texas age-verification case, have been scheduled to happen on January 15, 2025 earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket. Free Speech Coalition and co-plaintiffs are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.
The Court docket accepted the case, granting FSC’s petition for certiorari, in July. Free Speech Coalition filed its deserves temporary in September.
“Whereas Texas’ legislation could sound cheap on its face, in observe, it’s terribly burdensome and invasive, successfully deterring adults from accessing authorized content material,” mentioned Alison Boden, government director of the Free Speech Coalition. “To make issues worse, this legislation – and ones prefer it – fail at their acknowledged objective of defending youngsters on-line, regardless of forcing grownup content material creators and customers to function below the specter of surveillance and censorship. We stay up for making our case earlier than the Court docket.”
Attorneys for the Plaintiffs are David D. Cole, Vera Eidelman, Brian Hauss, Ben Wizner, Brian Klosterboer, Edgar Saldivar, Adriana Piñon, Cloe Kempf, and Thomas Buser-Clancy of the American Civil Liberties Union; Derek L. Shaffer, Christopher G. Michel, Rachel G. Frank, Michael T. Zeller, Arian Koochesfahani, Delaney Gold-Diamond, Taylor E. Comerford, Daniel F. Mummolo, and Max Diamond of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP; and Jeffrey Okay. Sandman of Webb Daniel Friedlander, LLP.
Extra on Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Lawyer Common of Texas could be discovered right here.
