News update 16th August 2024: A federal appeals court stayed an injunction blocking enforcement of an Indiana law requiring adult content websites to verify user ages.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit called the Hoosier measure “functionally identical” to one adopted by Texas.

That law has been in effect since April, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a preliminary injunction.

Indiana’s Senate Enrolled Act 17 has never gone live, despite an effectiveness date of July 1.

Days before that happened, a U.S. District Court Judge Richard Young, of Indiana’s Southern District, issued a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement. He said the requirements were “likely unconstitutional.”

But now that injunction is on hold.