( July 29, 2026, 11:18 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California federal judge denied Visa Inc.’s motion for sanctions against counsel for a plaintiff who accuses it of conspiracy to violate sex-trafficking laws and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) for processing payments for the pornography website Pornhub while it allegedly knew or should have known the site had monetized child sex abuse material (CSAM), writing that the plaintiff’s allegations against Visa are not so “baseless” as to be sanctionable....