Federal Judge Bars California’s Actor-Age Censorship Law

A federal court judge has barred California’s legislation requiring that subscription entertainment database sites remove an actor’s age, if requested by the actor.U.S.

District Court Judge Vince Chhabria issued the ruling on Tuesday.

IMDb filed a lawsuit in November of 2016, attempting to invalidate Ab 1687.

IMDb — a subsidiary of Amazon — had contended in its suit that the law, which applies only to subscription sites such as IMDb Pro, was unconstitutional.The defendants are Secretary of State Xavier Becerra and SAG-AFTRA, which joined the suit as a defendant after campaigning vigorously for the law in 2016.“Because the defendants have not shown that Ab 1687 can withstand strict scrutiny, and because they have raised no dispute of material fact that would entitle them to a trial, IMDb’s motion for summary judgment is granted, and the defendants’ motion for summary judgment is denied,” the judge wrote in the new ruling.

“The State of

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