content-based-regulation
16 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-881 | Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. Georgia, et al. | Georgia | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | content-based-regulation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny reed-v-gilbert strict-scrutiny tax-law | A Georgia statute imposes a tax that, on its face, singles out businesses defined by the content of their expression; the State seeks to justify the t… |
| 24-539 | Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Granted | Amici (113)Relisted (4) | content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates … |
| 23-1225 | Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-21 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 303-creative-llc-v-elenis commercial-speech compelled-speech content-based-regulation expert-testimony first-amendment nifla zauderer zauderer-standard | At issue in this case is a local ordinance, Bill 108-21 ("the Ordinance") enacted by Anne Arundel County, Maryland ("the County"). That Ordinance comp… |
| 23-463 | Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy | In Reed v. Town of Gilbert, this court held that laws that "defin[e] regulated speech by particular subject matter" are "obvious[ly]" content-based an… |
| 22-1196 | GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance | 1. Can a governmental entity escape 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after … |
| 22-1033 | Eugene Mazo, et al. v. Tahesha Way, New Jersey Secretary of State, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ballot ballot-restrictions civil-rights content-based-regulation content-regulation election first-amendment free-speech political-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a state that permits political candidates to engage in core political speech on the ballot may restrict that speech on the basis of content an… |
| 22-865 | Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Amici (4) | campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation | Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment… |
| 21-1402 | Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme | 1. Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech. 2. Whe… |
| 21-476 | 303 Creative LLC, et al. v. Aubrey Elenis, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (90)Relisted (4) | anti-discrimination-law compelled-speech content-based content-based-regulation free-exercise free-speech religious-beliefs religious-liberty viewpoint-discrimination | Artist Lorie Smith is a website designer who creates original, online content consistent with her faith. She plans to (1) design wedding websites prom… |
| 20-7780 | James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation | The Constitution guarantees a right to expressive association for activities protected by the First Amendment. Similarly, the Constitution limits cont… |
| 20-1029 | City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Judgment Issued | Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny | Austin sign code provisions distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs based solely on location. From this distinction—and unrelated to what… |
| 20-903 | First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response Waived | central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity | When governmental regulations upon commercial speech are based upon either the identity of the speaker or the content of the message, does the "height… |
| 18-1244 | David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-25 | Denied | Response Waived | abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent | When this Court ruled that California's Reproductive FAC T Act violates t he First Amendment, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becer… |
| 18-1235 | Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. | California | 2019-03-22 | Denied | 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction | 1) Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based s… | |
| 18-1182 | Scott Ogle v. Texas | Texas | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine | Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers… |
| 18-1073 | Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name. 2. Whether a l… |