{"id":312998,"date":"2026-05-28T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:55:20","slug":"fifth-circuit-lifts-block-on-texas-age-requirements-for-apps-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312998\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit Lifts Block on Texas Age Requirements for Apps (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas for now can require proof of age to download a smart phone app, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, unpausing a trial court injunction that halted the law on First Amendment grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The law, known as the App Store Accountability Act, will go into effect pending a deeper review by a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>A two-paragraph <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/ComputerCommunicationsIndustryAssociationvKenPaxtonDocketNo265000?doc_id=X1ML7Q3NBPI84GPLO6QN2JPHI1U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">order<\/a> granting Texas\u2019 request for an administrative stay from Republican-appointed Judges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/smith-jerry-edwin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Smith<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/haynes-catharina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Catharina Haynes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/oldham-andrew-stephen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Oldham<\/a> came without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court <a data-terminal-id=\"T7QI2TKGZAKO\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/texas-phone-app-age-law-blocked-days-before-effective-date\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blocked the law last December<\/a>, days before &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas for now can require proof of age to download a smart phone app, a federal appeals court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112683,12918,18016,18058,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-312998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-burden-of-proof","tag-constitutional-law","tag-injunctions","tag-mobile-devices","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}