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THOMAS JEFFERSON’S library was filled with books depicting “vivid scenes of sexuality, lust and sexual scandal”. So wrote the plaintiffs in the lead-up to Free Speech Coalition v Paxton, a ...

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know. It would have been a strange thing for him to ask, had he not posed the question at Wednesday’s hearing over a Texas law requiring age verification to access ...

Critics, led by industry attorney Derek Shaffer, argue the law infringes on adults' First Amendment rights and compromises privacy. "These laws imperil free speech and data security for millions ...

“One of the parties here is the owner of Pornhub,” Alito, 74, asked attorney Derek Shaffer, representing the plaintiffs. “What percentage of the material on that is not obscene as to children?

In oral arguments for a First Amendment case before the Supreme Court Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito pursued an odd line of ...

During the Wednesday hearing, Alito asked attorney Derek Shaffer, who is representing the entertainment trade group, to explain some of the 'most popular porn sites.' 'One of the parties here is ...

Concern over dangers to children from increasingly easy access to hardcore pornography online dominated U.S. Supreme Court ...

Derek Shaffer, the attorney, also pointed out the particular features of Texas’ law compared to that of other states. “This is the worst of the laws,” Shaffer said. “Texas is telling these targeted ...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday over a challenge on free speech grounds to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users in a case testing the ...