The former government asked the top court to assess the constitutionality of the Law on the Protection of Minors from Negative Effects of Public Information. The law states that minors are adversely affected by information that “denigrates family values and promotes a different concept of marriage and family formation from that enshrined in the Constitution and the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania”. The court ruled that this provision of the law is contrary to Article 25 of the constitution, which guarantees the right to hold and freely express one’s own convictions and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas.