The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to block Texas’s App Store Accountability Act (SB 2420), allowing the state to enforce age verification requirements for app downloads while legal challenges continue. The unsigned orders, with no noted dissents, declined to reinstate a lower-court injunction that had halted the law, according to SCOTUSblog. Texas can now require proof of age for all app store users before they can download apps or make in-app purchases, as reported by Reclaim The Net [10]. Two lawsuits challenging the law on First Amendment grounds are pending; the Fifth Circuit will hold an expedited hearing in…

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