No. 22-558
Response Waived
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine
Latest Conference:
2023-02-17
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
2. Is a law that punishes the repeated sending of electronic communications with intent and likely result to "harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend" another unconstitutionally overbroad?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?
Docket Entries
2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-23
Waiver of right of respondent Texas to respond filed.
2022-12-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 18, 2023)
Attorneys
Pedro Lance Soto
Mark William Bennett — Petitioner
Texas
Andrea L. Westerfeld — Ellis County & District Attorney, Respondent