expressive-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…