The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to state laws requiring online age verification for websites hosting explicit adult ...

“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 questioning regarding free speech and pornography.

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 ...

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 ...

Derek Shaffer, a lawyer for the Free Speech Coalition, told the justices that the Texas law burdens constitutionally protected speech based on its content, specifically by imposing an age ...

That was the thrust of remarks from Derek Shaffer, attorney for challengers FSC, who said that the Texas law had chilling effects and completely sidestepped less-restrictive measures including ...

It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s ...