reputational-harm
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-789 | Angela Kay Plese v. Ronald Austin, et al. | Tennessee | 2026-01-06 | Pending | civil-liability constitutional-law defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm | Whether the First Amendment allows a plaintiff who suffers no reputational harm to recover for defamation. | |
| 25-115 | Monica Miller, et al. v. Letitia James, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Attorney General of New York | Second Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights defamation first-amendment free-speech reputational-harm standing | During a press conference convened by the New York Attorney General to announce the filing of a civil lawsuit against Red Rose Rescue, a pro-life orga… |
| 23-1135 | Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2024-04-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing | 1. Do Petitioners, who were the intended targets of the challenged policy directive, have standing to advance this ripe legal challenge when they have… |
| 21-802 | Coral Ridge Ministries Media, Inc., dba D. James Kennedy Ministries v. Southern Poverty Law Center | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (14) | actual-malice common-law curtis-publishing-co-v-butts defamation first-amendment free-speech public-figure reputational-harm sullivan | In New York Times v. Sullivan, this Court upended common law defamation jurisprudence creating a more-often-than-not insurmountable bar for a public f… |
| 19-910 | K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. | Alabama | 2020-01-22 | Denied | calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore | Whether, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, virtual contacts can establish specific personal … | |
| 18-5194 | Teofil Brank v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-875d criminal-law extortion hobbs-act reputation reputational-harm rule-of-lenity scheidler-v-now statutory-interpretation | Does Hobbs Act extortion encompass threats to reputation, as opposed to threats of physical injury or economic harm, as suggested strongly by the stat… |