Actors’ ages can be posted online, court says
Is it proper to ask thespians their age? It is, a federal judge in San Francisco says. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria recently ruled on a request for an injunction against it that a California law, which prevents the film and television information website IMDB from posting actor’s real ages, is out of bounds and cannot be enforced. While the law’s aim was to prevent age and gender discrimination in casting, the judge held that the law likely abridges expression of non-commercial free speech, writing, “it’s difficult to imagine how AB 1687 [the law] could not violate the First Amendment.”...
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