360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al.
Whether North Carolina's land-surveyor licensure law, as applied to Michael Jones and 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, violates the First Amendment by prohibiting the communication of aerial photographs and three-dimensional digital models containing location and dimension data, where the law is triggered exclusively by the communicative content of those images and where Jones seeks only to communicate truthful information with a disclaimer that the images are not legally authoritative.
Whether a state licensing board can constitutionally prohibit a non-licensed individual from creating and distributing aerial photographic maps containing location metadata under the First Amendment's free speech protections