protected-speech
15 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1094 | Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Response Waived | cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged, in federal court cases spanning ten years, that Respondents Perkins Coie LLP and their former Gener… |
| 23-1188 | Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness | 1. Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as "relevant offense conduct" violates the First Amendment a… |
| 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… |
| 23-7158 | Russell Dean Alford v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness | In § 1752(a)(2)'s and § 5104(e)(2)(D)'s prohibitions against "disorderly or disruptive" conduct, do "disorderly" and "disruptive" narrow the types of … |
| 23-895 | Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action | The Executive Branch of the United States Government acted in concert with Meta Platforms, Inc., to censor protected speech. The questions presented … |
| 23-156 | Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Relisted (9) | bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration | Whether bias-response teams objectively chill students' speech. |
| 21-716 | David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-11-15 | Denied | criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower | Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot… | |
| 21-6221 | David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction | Massachusetts | 2021-11-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat | Whether the petitioner, a senior African American prisoner complaining about systemic racism in a letter he mailed to the governor of Massachusetts at… |
| 21-213 | Nathaniel Borrell Dyer v. Atlanta Independent School System | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | due-process first-amendment free-speech limited-public-forum protected-speech public-figures public-forum satirical-flyer satirical-speech viewpoint-discrimination | 1. Whether Atlanta Independent School System violated Mr. Dyer's First Amendment right to free speech by categorically banning him from using protecte… | |
| 20-1635 | Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-05-24 | Denied | civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny | Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s… | |
| 20-5220 | Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness | Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a "lewd exhibition" of child nudity in a … |
| 19-771 | Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings | 1. Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement … |
| 18-722 | Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission | District of Columbia | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (4) | administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion | Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect… |
| 18-696 | Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech | 1. Should the Ninth Circuit have reversed itself and exacerbated an unsettled and widening split among the First, Fifth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits by f… |
| 18-6272 | Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing | Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo… |