The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has cleared the way for Florida to enforce a closely watched law restricting social-media access for children, handing the state a significant interim win in one of the country’s most important battles over youth online regulation.

The ruling allows Florida to implement a statute that bars certain social-media accounts for children under 14 and imposes additional rules governing minors’ access and account features.

A New Mexico jury has delivered a striking win for state tech enforcement, finding that Meta willfully lied on 26 separate occasions in a case centered on data privacy, hate speech, misinformation, and the company’s post-Cambridge Analytica investigation of third-party app developers. The verdict stands out not just for its breadth, but for the jury’s apparent willingness to treat alleged misstatements across multiple content and privacy issues as part of a larger pattern of deceptive conduct.

For legal observers, the significance goes beyond the headlines.