speech-regulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A381 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2025-10-02 Application 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…