Across four related Kansas lawsuits against adult websites, three were dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction and one was sent to compelled arbitration. None reached whether any system actually verified age correctly. The one dispute sharpest on the facts is now bound for a forum that produces no public record.

In the $942 million New Mexico v. Meta judgment, NCMEC testimony described an internal "adult classifier" whose errors were caught only through ex post, case-by-case review by law enforcement — not through any independent record of the determination itself.

Well over one hundred federal claims against Roblox are centralized in MDL No. 3166. The age-determination mechanism the claims depend on was not the same throughout the conduct period. Discovery can compel records — it cannot retroactively convert them into the independent, contemporaneous fixation they were never built to contain.

The federal trial pitting 29 states against Meta, opened August 18, 2026, surfaces a structural evidentiary gap: whether an independently fixed determination record from an internal detection system exists at all. A doctrinal analysis, taking no position on the trial's outcome.