| 25A381 |
Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Application |
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constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-676 |
Friends of George's, Inc. v. Steven J. Mulroy, in His Official and Individual Capacity as the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii-standing content-based-restriction first-amendment judicial-review statutory-interpretation viewpoint-discrimination |
When evaluating a constitutional challenge to a state statute, may a federal court unilaterally narrow the statute's scope in a manner that contradict… |
| 24-243 |
Michael Grant v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech public-forum religious-expression solicitation |
On December 21, 2019, Petitioner preached at Love Park in Philadelphia with a sign "if you died tonight, do you know if you are going to heaven or hel… |
| 24-5267 |
Richard George Baxter v. State Bar of California |
California |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restriction embezzlement first-amendment fraud-regulation mortgage-fraud strict-scrutiny |
1. The first questions presented is whether a California law requiring fraud embezzlement, and forgery are legitimate covering the court proceedings.
… |
| 24-53 |
Nathan Miller, et al. v. Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. |
Minnesota |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
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campaign-speech civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-law content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
Whether state statutes broadly banning false campaign speech, such as Minnesota Statutes § 211B.02, are unconstitutional, if not narrowly tailored to … |
| 23A1124 |
Kathryn Dana Papp v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
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communication-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech harassment-statute intent-to-harass |
1. This case concerns whether the First Amendment permits a person to be convicted for communicating with another with intent to harass, annoy, or ala… |
| 23-1122 |
Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (45)Relisted (2) |
adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny |
This Court has repeatedly held that States may rationally restrict minors' access to sexual materials, but such restrictions must withstand strict scr… |
| 23-1105 |
National Press Photographers Association v. Kelly Higgins, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of Hays County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions drone-surveillance due-process first-amendment free-speech intermediate-scrutiny standing vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Do journalists and news organizations whose First Amendment rights are chilled by an ambiguous criminal law have standing to bring a facial void-fo… |
| 23-342 |
X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction |
The U.S. Government conducts surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals by issuing "national security process" to electronic communication servic… |
| 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… |
| 22-665 |
Gordon M. Price v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction first-amendment permit-requirement prior-restraint public-forum |
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined enforcement of 54 U.S.C. § 100905, which directs the Secretary of the Interior to "requi… |
| 21-8023 |
Xingfei Luo v. California |
California |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation |
Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes… |
| 21-1284 |
Barry D. Romeril v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
constitutional-rights content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment prior-restraint sec-settlement viewpoint-based-restriction void-judgment |
1. Does it violate the First Amendment for the
Securities and Exchange Commission to impose a
requirement that any party with whom it settles
must agr… |
| 21-7108 |
Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2022-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7105 |
Charles E. Sisney v. Denny Kaemingk, Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment less-restrictive-alternative penological-interest prison-censorship prison-policy turner-factors turner-v-safley |
1. It is settled that inmates in state and federal prisons retain First Amendment rights consistent with the application of the four factors set forth… |
| 21-6735 |
Gregory A. Rollins v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-photography constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment government-interest intermediate-scrutiny public-place strict-scrutiny |
This Court has held that a statute restricting photographs, videos, or sound recordings is presumptively invalid under the First Amendment to the Cons… |
| 21-427 |
William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. |
| 21-120 |
James Tracy v. Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
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academic-freedom content-based content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech public-employment vagueness vagueness-doctrine viewpoint-discrimination |
Florida Atlantic University has a reporting policy
that requires its faculty and staff to disclose outside
professional activities to the university… |
| 20-1731 |
Trista Oettle v. William J. Cadigan, Chairman, Illinois State Board of Elections, et al. |
Illinois |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-selfie content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech political-expression political-speech public-forum viewpoint-neutral viewpoint-neutrality |
1. Whether a photograph of a completed ballot, commonly called a ballot selfie, is a form of political expression in a public forum or a nonpublic for… |
| 20-1627 |
S. S., et al. v. S. B. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness |
Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-1111 |
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers, Local 229, AFL-CIO v. National Labor Relations Board |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
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content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment labor-speech national-labor-relations-act secondary-boycott speaker-based strict-scrutiny union-inducement viewpoint-discriminatory |
Whether the secondary boycott provision of the National Labor Relations Act prohibiting peaceful and non-coercive Union inducement of workers to leave… |
| 20-1081 |
Illinois Republican Party, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech pandemic-regulation political-speech religious-speech strict-scrutiny |
In Reed v. Town of Gilbert , this Court clarified that content -based restrictions are those that apply to particular speech because of the topic disc… |
| 20-569 |
Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, et al. v. J. B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause jacobson-v-massachusetts pandemic-exception religious-discrimination religious-gatherings strict-scrutiny |
(1) Whether the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from discriminating against religious gatherings by restricting t… |
| 20-5185 |
Joshua Jermaine Nelson v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine vagueness |
1. Is a statute unconsti tutional, on its face, when it is a content-based restri ction
that severel y criminalizes a substanti al amount of harml ess… |
| 19-6450 |
Sherif Sayed Mahmoud v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutionality content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment free-speech penal-code standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions texas-penal-code |
1. Whether Section 33.021 of the Texas Penal Code is a content-based restriction. The courts of appeals continue applying the incorrect standard of re… |
| 19-6083 |
Michael M. Molinaro v. Bertha A. Molinaro |
California |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness content-based-restriction domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech overbroad separation-of-powers vagueness void-for-vagueness |
1. Is California's Domestic Violence Prevention Act's (DVPA's) severable residual clause defining "abuse" (Family Code (F.C.) § 6203(a)(4)) unconstitu… |
| 19-281 |
Capital Associated Industries, Inc. v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction content-based-speech first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-association legal-assistance legal-services non-profit non-profit-organizations professional-licensing strict-scrutiny |
1. Do the North Carolina statutes prohibiting the Association's attorneys from providing legal assistance to its members violate the freedom of associ… |
| 18-1518 |
Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. |
Washington |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness |
Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that… |
| 18-1365 |
Mogul Media, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
commercial-speech content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-speech municipal-government public-forum public-property zoning-resolution |
The Second Circuit affirmed, en banc, the Second Circuit's prior affirmance of the district court's dismissal, at the pleading stage, of the Amended C… |
| 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… |
| 18-1073 |
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… |
| 18-7613 |
David Ackell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens |
Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate… |
| 18-910 |
City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board |
California |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based |
Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35… |