| 25-965 |
Daniel Grand v. City of University Heights, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
chilling-effect constitutional-injury first-amendment land-use-finality religious-exercise williamson-county-doctrine |
Whether the First Amendment's established
chilling-effect doctrine—under which a credible government threat that deters the exercise of fundamental ri… |
| 24-716 |
Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power |
1. Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective?
2. Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Pol… |
| 24A558 |
Nicholas Paul Somberg v. Karen D. McDonald, Prosecutor, Oakland County Prosecutor's Office |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
chilling-effect constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment governmental-punishment pre-enforcement-standing |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1135 |
Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-18 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing |
1. Do Petitioners, who were the intended targets of the challenged policy directive, have standing to advance this ripe legal challenge when they have… |
| 23A754 |
Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
chilling-effect first-amendment inter-circuit-split retaliation speech-suppression summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 23-156 |
Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Relisted (9) |
bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration |
Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech. |
| 22-7581 |
Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution |
Whether, under Borderkircher v. Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 358-59 (1978); North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 (1969); Chaffin v. Stynchcombe, 412 U.S. 17… |
| 21-951 |
Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine |
This Court has held that a plaintiff may challenge
the constitutionality of a burden on speech by alleging that it objectively deters people from exer… |
| 21-247 |
Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech |
1. Should this Court permit the Lanham Act to be extended to non-commercial political speech?
2. Should this Court permit the imposition of a sanctio… |
| 20-7304 |
Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication |
Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney … |
| 18-722 |
Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission |
District of Columbia |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion |
Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review
under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal
Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect… |