Texas and 18 other states have recently enacted laws requiring pornography websites to verify the ages of their visitors.

A panel of appeals judges has ruled that Tennessee can begin enforcing a law that requires pornographic websites to verify their visitors’ age as the First Amendment debate rises to the U.S. Supreme Court this week for oral arguments over a similar Texas law.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a major case that could set a precedent for the legality of age verification laws for accessing online pornography. At issue is Texas’s 2023 law,

The Supreme Court is declining to hear an appeal from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Sunoco and other oil companies to scuttle a lawsuit by Honolulu accusing them of misleading the public for decades about the dangers of climate change induced by the burning of fossil fuels.