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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is challenging a lawsuit against a state law restricting minors' social media access, arguing trade groups lack standing to sue.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the law, which would have required parental permission for 14- and 15-year-olds to use some platforms and banned those under 16.

Florida’s attorney general says social media companies have no business speaking for kids in a lawsuit challenging the state’s new restrictions on minors’ online access .

In an Aug. 21 motion to dismiss, Attorney General James Uthmeier argued that the federal law allowing constitutional challenges doesn’t apply because the trade groups haven’t “personally suffered a deprivation of federal rights.”

Uthmeier focused on trade associati

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