FSC: Tennessee Age Verification Law Goes Into Effect as Appeals Court Grants Stay

FSC: Tennessee Age Verification Law Goes Into Effect as Appeals Court Grants Stay

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has issued a statement on the Protect Tennessee Minors Act, the state’s new age verification law, which will now take effect following the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to lift a district court’s preliminary injunction against enforcement.

The FSC statement follows:

The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit has granted Tennessee a stay of the preliminary injunction ordered in December, allowing the Protect Tennessee Minors Act, the state’s age-verification law, to go into effect. Adult businesses should be aware that the state’s attorney general could begin enforcing the law, effective immediately. Additionally, the law permits residents of Tennessee to bring a private cause of action or civil suit against sites with “material harmful to minors.”

Free Speech Coalition’s challenge to a Texas law is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. 

Joining Free Speech Coalition as co-plaintiffs are creator and educator MelRose Michaels; sex education platform O.school (Deep Technologies, Inc.); sexual wellness retailer Adam & Eve (PHE, Inc.); and adult fan platform JustFor.Fans (JFF Publications, LLC).

Representing Free Speech Coalition and its co-plaintiffs in this case are Jeff Sandman of Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP, D. Gill Sperlein of the Law Office of D. Gill Sperlein, and Edward M. Bearman of the Law Office of Edward M. Bearman.

For more information, visit FreeSpeechCoalition.com.

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