Book People, Inc. v. Wong
The U.S. District Court issued an injunction on a Texas law that would require publishers and booksellers to assign ratings to certain books, which would they then be barred from selling to school libraries.
Category: prior restraint
Fayetteville Public Library v. Crawford County, Arkansas
The U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction blocking a law that would require booksellers and librarians to limit their books appropriate to all minors only or exclude all minors from their premises. Another provision on the law allows any person in Arkansas to demand the removal of a book that the person deems inappropriate.
In Re: A Court of Mist and Fury, In Re: Gender Queer
A Virginia judge dismissed the obscenity case against the books A Court of Mist and Fury and Gender Queer, finding that the law was unconstitutional as prior restraint, that it had insufficient knowledge requirement, and there was insufficient notice.
Tennessee House Bill 2294
H.B. 2294 would require internet service providers to block access to “pornographic” material for all users. A failure to do so shall be treated as a deceptive or unfair act or practice and is subject to penalties under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
Missouri Senate Bill 733
S.B. 733 would require internet service providers to block their customers’ access to depictions — and possibly descriptions — of nudity and sexual activity.
Oklahoma Senate Bill 864
S.B. 864 is a mandatory filtering bill that would bar anyone from manufacturing, distributing, or selling any product that makes content accessible on the internet from doing business in the state unless the product has active and operating “digital blocking capability” that blocks access to obscene material.
Colorado House Bill 1334
H.B. 1334 would bar the posting or dissemination, through any electronic means, of an image of a minor committing suicide or attempting to do so.
South Dakota House Bill 1154
H.B. 1154 is a mandatory filtering bill that would bar a distributor from manufacturing or distributing a product that makes content available on the internet unless it contains filtering software.
Hawaii House Bill 567
H.B. 567 is a mandatory filtering bill that would make it illegal to manufacture or distribute a product that makes any content accessible on the internet without “digital blocking capability.”
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584 is an HTPA bill, which requires Internet Service Providers to provide filtering software that renders “sexual content and/or patently offensive material” inaccessible with any service or product it sells or leases.
Wyoming House Bill 127
Summary H.B. 127 is an HTPA bill. It bars any person from manufacturing, distributing or selling any device in Wyoming unless it has working filters to block access to websites that contain obscene material or that facilitate...
West Virginia Senate Bill 460
Summary S.B. 460 is an HTPA bill. It bars any retailer from selling or leasing any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless it has operating filtering software that blocks access to obscene material, revenge...
Tennessee Senate Bill 2280
Summary S.B. 2280 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
Tennessee House Bill 2685
Summary H.B. 2685 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
South Carolina House Bill 3003
Summary H.B. 3003 (HTPA) requires that all devices that allow access to the internet must come with an “active and operating digital blocking capability” that make obscene material “inaccessible.” The “digital blocking...
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2028
Summary S.B. 2028 is an HTPA bill, that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
Oklahoma House Bill 1472
Summary H.B. 1472, titled “Human Trafficking Prevention Act” (HTPA) makes it a crime for any business or person who manufacturers, distributes or sells any product that makes content accessible on the internet is barred from...
New York Assembly Bill 9011
Summary A.B. 9011 is an HTPA bill. It bars the sale or distribution of any computer or mobile device without filtering software that blocks access to child pornography, any “hub that facilitates prostitution” or...
New Jersey Senate Bill 540
Summary S.B. 540 is an HTPA bill titled “Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act.” It makes it a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud act to manufacture, sell, lease or distribute any product that makes...
New Jersey Assembly Bill 878
Summary A.B. 878 is an HTPA bill titled “Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act.” It makes it a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud act to manufacture, sell, lease or distribute any product that makes...
New Mexico Senate Bill 89
Summary S.B. 89 is an HTPA bill. It bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
Missouri House Bill 2422
Summary H.B. 2422 is an HTPA bill. It bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
Mississippi Senate Bill 2315
Summary S.B. 2315 is an HTPA bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or distribution of any device that makes available content on the internet without installed and active filtering software to block...
Maryland Senate Bill 585
S.B. 585 is an HTPA bill that bars manufacturers, distributors and sellers of devices capable of accessing content on the internet from doing business in the state unless each device has an active and operating digital blocking capability that blocks access to obscene material and websites that facilitate human trafficking and prostitution.
Kansas Senate Bill 363
S.B. 363 is an HTPA bill that bars an internet service provider from selling or leasing to a consumer any product or service that makes content accessible on the internet, unless that product or service contains an active and operating technology that blocks access to “obscene content.”
