| 25A381 |
Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Application |
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constitutional-review content-based-restriction first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny purpose-based-distinction speech-regulation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-138 |
Margo Roman v. Massachusetts Board of Registration in Veterinary Medicine |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment licensing-board occupational-speech professional-licensure speech-regulation |
whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor… |
| 24-920 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Pending |
Amici (1) |
constitutional-law first-amendment heightened-scrutiny professional-conduct speech-regulation veterinary-medicine |
(1) Whether professional conduct regulations that incidentally burden speech are subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny.
(2) Assuming heighte… |
| 24-276 |
Ryan Crownholm, et al. v. Richard B. Moore, in His Official Capacity as Executive Officer of the California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
conduct-distinction constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment occupational-licensing professional-speech speech-regulation |
1. What standard applies to determine whether
an occupational licensing law's restriction on a person's use, creation, and dissemination of informatio… |
| 24-279 |
360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-11 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
as-applied-challenge circuit-split conduct-vs-speech first-amendment licensing-law speech-regulation |
In an as-applied First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's surveyor-licensing law, the Fifth Circuit in 2020 held that the standard for determining w… |
| 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… |
| 21-1172 |
American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-based content-based-law employment-classification financial-burdens first-amendment function-of-speech independent-contractor purpose-of-speech regulatory-burdens speech-regulation tax-burden |
Is a law content-based when it imposes financial and regulatory burdens based on the function or purpose of speech?
Does a law that has the effect of… |
| 21-427 |
William Frederick Lamoureux v. Montana |
Montana |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law content-based-restriction criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine speech-regulation |
Whether a statute that criminalizes speech intended to annoy or offend is unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. |
| 19-7544 |
Robert M. Waggy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
constitutional-law content-based content-based-restrictions criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech public-concern speech-regulation telephone-harassment |
Whether a statute that prohibits telephone harassment may, consistent with the First Amendment, prohibit speech on matters of public concern or impose… |
| 18-7613 |
David Ackell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-challenge speech-regulation stalking-statute united-states-v-stevens |
Whether the First Circuit erred in upholding 18 U.S.C. § 2261A (2)(B) (2013) against a First Amendment challenge by holding that the statute "regulate… |