NetChoice, Miss. Seek District Court Pause Amid Appeal in Social Media Case
In a dispute over an age-verification law, NetChoice and Mississippi asked to stay proceedings in the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi while the state’s appeal is pending. Mississippi appealed the court’s preliminary injunction of the law to the 5th…
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month (see 2407030076). District Judge Halil Suleyman Ozerden last week denied a request from Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) to stay the preliminary injunction (see 2407160038). Under a law that NetChoice challenged, parental consent is needed for those younger than 18 who access social media.