Free speech challenge mounted to California’s actor age law

An entertainment website is challenging California’s law preventing them from posting actors’ ages. The law was passed to protect actors from age discrimination, but IMDb.com claims the law is unconstitutional censorship. (Cal Matters, January 18, 2017, by Laurel Rosenhall)

In response to the IMDb.com lawsuit, California claimed the law is really about contracts as anyone wanting to post on IMDb can request as a part of the return on their fee that the website not post their age. (The Hollywood Reporter, January 20, 2017, by Eriq Gardner)