District attorneys drop bid to save 'age verification' law

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's district attorneys are dropping their bid to preserve a Louisiana criminal law that requires online booksellers, publishers and other website owners to electronically verify customers' ages before providing access to material that could be deemed harmful to children.A court filing Monday says the district attorneys are no longer contesting the American Civil Liberties Union's efforts to have the 2015 statute declared unconstitutional. The filing says they're engaging in