The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed Indiana’s age verification law to go into effect — even as the Supreme Court has suggested a similar law in Texas might be unconstitutional. The Seventh Circuit panel handed down this ruling, letting the law go into effect just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up a case challenging Texas’s nearly identical age verification law.
Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25052733/fsc-v-rokita-7th-circuit.pdf
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita appealed the injunction to the Seventh Circuit. There, the majority opinion deferred to the Supreme Court’s allowance of Texas HB 1181 to stay in effect through the course of FSC v. Paxton as justification for the Indiana law to be enforced.
In other words, Indiana should be able to enforce its own law as well because SCOTUS is allowing Texas to enforce its law for now. The judges did this as a means to maintain “judicial efficiency.” They also put the case regarding the Indiana law on hold until the Supreme Court rules on Texas’ law.
Deferring to the same position as the Supreme Court is their job, right?
Fuck the whole movement to parent adults by tracking their porn use, though.
