The porn industry’s sizable influence aside, it was easy to miss (with all the inauguration buzz) that its cynically named ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case that seeks to challenge a Texas state law requiring pornography ...

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

The case brought by the porn industry over a Texas age-verification law could determine the fate of more than a dozen similar ...

“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?

The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age ...

The lawyer, Derek Shaffer, brought up the law’s scant privacy protections for adult users of the covered websites and the “hostile” approach of regulators in how the law also sought to scold ...

“Do you know a lot of parents who are more tech savvy than their 15-year-old children,” Justice Samuel Alito asked Derek Shaffer, the attorney representing the adult entertainment industry and ...

We will get a fair decision that provides helpful guidance and a path forward that allows states to protect children while honoring the First Amendment.

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 ...

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 ...

During a discussion with Alito and Justice Neil Gorsuch, lawyer Derek Shaffer disputed the claim, made by supporters of the Texas law, that essentially all of the material on websites like PornHub ...