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Ken Paxton, Respondent In June 2023, Texas enacted H.B. 1181, which requires age verification by any commercial website with content “more than one-third of which is sexual material harmful to minors.” The state exempted internet search engines. The law also requires sites covered by the age-verification requirement to post scripted “sexual materials health warnings” that claim pornography is harmful to mental health and potentially addictive. A group of adult-content creators and free-speech advocates sued Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, alleging that the law violates First Amendment protections. A federal district court agreed and temporarily blocked the law pending…
