Louisiana booksellers challenge law that puts age restrictions on bookshop sites

New Orleans stores launch proceedings against legislation intended to restrict sales of inappropriate material to children

Two New Orleans bookshops are challenging a new Louisiana law that requires websites publishing material deemed harmful to minors to verify the age of their users, saying it would make them appear incorrectly to be “adult” bookstores.

Passed earlier this summer, the law says that failure to “electronically acknowledge and attest that the person seeking to access the [harmful to minors] material is 18 years of age or older” will “constitute the unlawful distribution of material harmful to minors through the internet”, risking a fine of up to $10,000 (£6,500).

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