| 25-713 |
George Barry Hawkins, Jr. v. Abigail Spanberger, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment selective-permissibility voting-rights |
Whether Virginia's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 23-1008 |
Gwyneth K. Murray-Nolan v. Scott Rubin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law context due-process expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent legal-interpretation standing |
1. Whether conduct must convey a particularized
message to be protected as expressive under the First
Amendment.
2. Whether the full context of conduc… |
| 23-590 |
Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights |
Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 23-423 |
Susan Porter v. Kelly Martinez, in Her Official Capacity as Sheriff of San Diego County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
categorical-ban content-neutral expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-restriction less-restrictive-alternatives traffic-safety |
1. Whether the government may categorically ban expressive conduct, such as expressive honking of car horns, in the name of traffic safety without pre… |
| 22-7750 |
Jessie Traylor v. Stevie Knight, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights clemency constitutional-law criminal-justice-reform due-process equal-protection expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech hate-crime sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1091 |
Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety |
1. Whether a governme nt may ban expressive
conduc t without first trying to advance its interests
using less speech -restrictive measures , as the … |
| 19-976 |
Jovanna Edge, et al. v. City of Everett, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
body-confidence civil-rights commercial-speech dress-code expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech message-communication particularized-message workplace-attire |
1. Whether First Amendment protection extends to expressive conduct only when there is a "great likelihood" that an intended particularized message wi… |
| 18-547 |
Melissa Elaine Klein, et vir v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries |
Oregon |
2018-10-26 |
GVR |
Amici (10)Relisted (13) |
commercial-art compelled-speech employment-division-v-smith expressive-conduct first-amendment free-exercise free-speech hybrid-rights public-accommodations religious-liberty |
1. Whether Oregon violated the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment by compelling the Kleins to design and create a custom wed… |