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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-882 | Andrew D. Parker, et al. v. Bill Gates, as a Member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | district-court-discretion election-litigation first-amendment legal-procedure political-speech rule-11-sanctions | Petitioners brought claims on behalf of candidates in advance of the 2022 election, challenging the procedures Arizona would use to count votes in tha… | |
| 25-819 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse Waived | first-amendment free-speech pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Whether and in what circumstances public employers may discipline employees based on their expression of controversial views while off the job. |
| 25-756 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h… |
| 25A562 | Jeanne Hedgepeth v. James A. Britton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-11-14 | Application | first-amendment free-speech pickering-test political-speech public-employee viewpoint-discrimination | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6115 | Anton Lazzaro v. LGM Consulting Group, Inc. | Florida | 2025-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights contract-law damages first-amendment fundraising political-speech | The State of Florida authorizes political fundraising consultants to recover expectancy damages in breach of contract actions against political campai… |
| 25A402 | Andrew Hess v. Oakland County, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-07 | Denied | election-recount first-amendment hyperbole michigan-statute political-speech terrorist-threat | Whether Michigan Compiled Laws § 750.543m, facially and as applied to Applicant's speech, violates the First Amendment. | |
| 24-803 | Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission | Texas | 2025-01-28 | Denied | Amici (9)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | citizen-communication first-amendment free-speech government-regulation lobbying-restrictions political-speech | The question presented is whether —and if so, under what circumstances —the First Amendment permits the government to require ordinary citizens to reg… |
| 24A494 | Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission | Texas | 2024-11-19 | Presumed Complete | campaign-finance first-amendment free-speech-restriction government-compulsion political-speech registration-requirement | Question not identified. | |
| 24-503 | Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo | When the government restricts political speech, to satisfy the First Amendment, the government must "point to record evidence or legislative findings … |
| 24A266 | Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-16 | Presumed Complete | campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5526 | Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech | 1) Did the Court of Appeals err in its decision dated May 2025 denying petitioner's petition for Writ of Certiorari under the strict construction? 2)… |
| 24-59 | Stephen Lynch Murray v. Phil Archer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law confrontation due-process fourth-amendment free-speech political-speech speech-retaliation standing witness-confrontation | When there is speech infringement with arrest, must there be a venue for confrontation and evidence the state did not provide as due, before a federal… |
| 24-53 | Nathan Miller, et al. v. Republican Party of Minnesota, et al. | Minnesota | 2024-07-17 | Denied | 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 … | |
| 23-1215 | Christopher Deering v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-14 | Denied | Response Waived | color-of-law compelled-speech dues dues-payments first-amendment free-speech political-speech public-employee union union-membership | 1. As a matter of first impression, whether the First Amendment protects a public employee's right to disassociate from a union —by resigning union me… |
| 23-7247 | Calvin Fair v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2024-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech intent mental-state political-speech recklessness standing true-threat | When the state prosecutes core political speech as a true threat, must the state prove the speaker's intent to terrorize, or is a recklessness standar… |
| 23A897 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | bribery-statute campaign-contributions explicit-agreement first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo | Question not identified. | |
| 23A787 | Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Presumed Complete | compelled-speech first-amendment government-deduction non-union-employees political-speech union-fees | Question not identified. | |
| 23-926 | No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | advertising-regulation association campaign-finance compelled-speech disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure donor-transparency first-amendment free-speech political-speech | 1. Whether requiring political advertisers to name their donors' donors within their advertisements advances any important or compelling state interes… |
| 23-6840 | Suzanne Ellen Kaye v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law counterman-v-colorado first-amendment free-speech jury-instructions political-speech true-threats watts-v-united-states | In threat prosecutions where the defendant mounts a political-speech defense, may trial courts—consistent with the First Amendment—instruct the jury o… |
| 22-1199 | Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action | In 2018, California created the Office of Election Cybersecurity. State law empowers the Office "[t]o monitor and counteract false or misleading infor… |
| 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… |
| 21-1412 | Pamela Young, et al. v. Wendy Rogers, et al. | Arizona | 2022-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | defamation false-light first-amendment milkovich milkovich-standard political-speech private-figure reasonable-reader | 1. Whether the First Amendment immunizes a political candidate from a private figure's defamation and false light claims where the candidate publishes… |
| 21-7115 | Robert Stahlnecker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | communications-law constitutional-challenge criminal-law first-amendment free-speech political-speech statutory-interpretation telecommunications | Does 47 U.S.C. § 223(a)(1)(C) violate the First Amendment when applied to political speech, as it was in this case? |
| 21-1071 | Stephen Lynch Murray v. Janelle Irwin Taylor, et al. | Florida | 2022-02-02 | Denied | civil-rights cyberstalking-statute defamation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-retaliation judicial-discretion political-speech standing | 1. Can the government deputize private actors to attack political speech and thereby abridge political speech using law and case law in civil court?… | |
| 21-992 | Dori Yates, et al. v. Hillsboro Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-12 | Denied | Response Waived | belgau-v-inslee first-amendment janus-precedent janus-v-afscme membership-agreement political-speech public-employees public-sector-unions union-dues waiver | In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, this Court held that public employees have a First Amendment right not to subsidize union speech. 138 S. Ct. 2448, 248… |
| 21-779 | Mark E. Schell v. Richard Darby, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bar-dues compulsory-fees constitutional-scrutiny exacting-scrutiny first-amendment ideological-speech mandatory-bar-dues political-speech union-fees | Are mandatory bar dues that subsidize the political and ideological speech of bar associations subject to "the same constitutional rule" of exacting F… |
| 21-712 | Derrick Tyrone Jenkins v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-15 | Denied | Response Waived | clear-and-present-danger contempt contempt-of-court due-process extrajudicial-speech first-amendment free-speech habeas-review judicial-criticism political-speech | Does the clear and present danger standard apply in contempt proceedings brought to sanction a litigant's extrajudicial criticism of an elected judge … |
| 21-657 | Joseph Cecil Vandevere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response Waived | conditional-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech political-hyperbole political-speech public-concern true-threat | 1) WHETHER THE SPEECH AT ISSUE HEREIN IS ENTITLED TO SPECIAL PROTECTION BECAUSE IT INVOLVES A MATTER OF PUBLIC CONCERN? 2) WHETHER THE SPEECH AT ISSU… |
| 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… |
| 20-1731 | 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… |
| 20-1678 | Daniel Z. Crowe, et al. v. Oregon State Bar, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Amici (10)Response Waived | attorney-regulation compelled-speech constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech keller-v-state-bar mandatory-dues political-speech public-sector-unions state-bar | This Court has held that "exacting" First Amendment scrutiny applies to laws that force public employees to subsidize the speech and political activit… |
| 20-1379 | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority v. Center for Investigative Reporting | Third Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | Amici (3) | categorical-ban commercial-speech content-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-speech political-speech public-forum supreme-court-precedent transit-advertising transit-authority | 1. Whether this Court's decision in Mansky overruled or abrogated the Court's holding in Lehman that transit authorities have the discretion to catego… |
| 20-7555 | Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | asian-americans civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection mental-health political-speech state-action | 1. Do the federal civil rights laws passed for the benefit of Americans of African descent after the U.S. Civil War also apply with equal force and ef… |
| 20-7450 | Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California | California | 2021-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency | Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid… |
| 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… |
| 20-1078 | Danyelle Bennett v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | constitutional-protection first-amendment free-speech hecklers-veto pickering-balancing-test political-speech public-employee rankin-v-mcpherson | 1. Whether, contrary to Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987), a public employee's political debate on an issue of national importance may be silen… |
| 20-751 | Ashley Ann Krapacs v. The Florida Bar | Florida | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abstract-idea administrative-law bar-discipline civil-rights disbarment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech free-speech 20-7519" integrated-bar intellectual-property judicial-corruption patent-law political-speech professional-conduct state-action supreme-court-precedent Whether the Supreme Court will address alleged jud | The Florida Bar, an integrated Bar system under the jurisdiction of the Florida Supreme Court, has disbarred an attorney who has posted what amounts t… |
| 20-530 | Harold H. Burbank, II v. Connecticut Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel | Connecticut | 2020-10-21 | Denied | attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech petition petition-rights political-speech | I. Did the First Amendment and Connecticut Constitution preclude Connecticut from reciprocal attorney discipline predicated on petitioner's Maine appe… | |
| 20-264 | Stephen S. Bona v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-02 | Denied | criminal-threat elonis-v-united-states first-amendment free-speech intent-to-harm political-speech true-threat virginia-v-black | 1. Whether, in a case involving political speech, the first amendment allows a state to criminalize a knowing threat of violence directed against a po… | |
| 19-1225 | Paul Hunt v. Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-17 | Denied | Amici (8)Relisted (7) | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech off-campus-speech political-speech professional-conduct professional-norms public-university qualified-immunity student-speech university-policy | Whether Respondents violated Mr. Hunt's clearly established rights as a private citizen under the First Amendment by punishing him for his off-campus,… |
| 19-1219 | Respect Washington v. Burien Communities for Inclusion, et al. | Washington | 2020-04-16 | Denied | Response Waived | ballot ballot-access civil-rights election-law first-amendment free-speech initiative initiative-process political-speech referendum voting voting-rights | Whether the First Amendment protects the right of citizens to vote on an initiative that meets all time, place and manner requirements for the initiat… |
| 19-831 | Adam Jarchow, et al. v. State Bar of Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Amici (5)Relisted (3) | associational-rights compelled-association compelled-speech first-amendment integrated-bar janus-precedent political-speech state-bar | In Janus v. AFSCME, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), the Court held that State laws compelling public employees to subsidize the speech of labor unions violate… |
| 19-698 | Wendy Alison Nora v. Minnesota Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility | Minnesota | 2019-12-04 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure disciplinary-proceedings due-process federal-courts first-amendment free-speech interpretation lower-court political-speech regulation standing | Whether Petitioner was denied her Rights to Due Process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States when the Minne… | |
| 19-670 | Arnold Fleck v. Joe Wetch, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | compulsory-funding compulsory-membership first-amendment janus-v-afscme opt-out opt-out-mechanism political-activities political-speech state-bar-association union-fees | The Petitioner is an attorney who is required by state law to join and to fund a state bar association as a condition of practicing law. He challenged… |
| 19-631 | William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-15 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19) | automated-call-restriction constitutional-remedy first-amendment free-speech government-debt-exception political-speech severability statutory-interpretation tcpa telephone-consumer-protection-act | Whether the government-debt exception to the TCPA's automated-call restriction violates the First Amendment, and whether the proper remedy for any con… |
| 19-5507 | David Fennell v. Charles Munger, et al. | California | 2019-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment assembly civil-rights due-process election-interference first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-assembly petition-for-redress political-speech | As part of the #Resist movement, the California Attorney General instituted a policy of arresting his Republican political opponents and banning them … |
| 18-9801 | RaShawn Long v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech political-speech retaliation standing takings | does this Constitute a 4th Amendment Violation? Shoud Inentry Searchr 'Arrest, be Constitutional when Officers mak rr to go? relief due to "Manifest… |
| 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… |
| 18-7647 | Lynn Smith, et vir v. Manasquan Savings Bank | New Jersey | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | association codes-of-judicial-conduct first-amendment judicial-conduct new-jersey new-jersey-state-court political-speech revised-code-of-judicial-conduct rules-governing-the-courts-of-the-state-of-new-jer standards-of-behavior state-courts | Codes of Judicial Conduct and related sources of authority provide standards of behavior for judges and others within the New Jersey state court famil… |
| 18-755 | Illinois Liberty PAC, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-13 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance civil-rights contribution-limits due-process equal-protection first-amendment political-contributions political-speech strict-scrutiny | 1. Should political contribution limits that favor one type of speaker over another receive strict scrutiny? 2. Should the holding in Buckley v. Vale… |
| 18-149 | Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing | 1. Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. 2. Whe… |