| 25-948 |
Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
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content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a… |
| 24-1061 |
Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-09 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings—which expressly exempts recordings of police activity and dis… |
| 24-756 |
National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
charitable-solicitation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny private-property-rights speech-restriction zoning-regulation |
The City of Arlington, Texas, has banned charitable donation boxes on consenting private property in 25 of 28 zoning districts in the City, foreclosin… |
| 24A613 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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first-amendment licensing professional-regulation speech-restriction state-authority veterinary-medicine |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1139 |
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 |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aerial-mapping communicative-content first-amendment licensing-board professional-regulation speech-restriction |
Whether North Carolina's land-surveyor licensure law, as applied to Michael Jones and 360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, violates the First Amendment by … |
| 23A1062 |
Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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buffer-zone content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny public-forum speech-restriction |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7497 |
In Re Olamide O. Bello |
|
2024-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction |
1. Wether a Company's Comments with customer on and for tedress Of Grievances Ver on alt eqed Qqovernment defam ator stoten ends 15 Orotected Under Fi… |
| 23-389 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Whether the test for content neutrality set forth in Hill v. Colorado, 530 U.S. 703 (2000), should be overruled in light of this Court's holding in… |
| 23-342 |
X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction |
The U.S. Government conducts surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals by issuing "national security process" to electronic communication servic… |
| 22-135 |
Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction |
Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu… |
| 21-1532 |
Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen sp… |
| 21-1402 |
Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme |
1. Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech.
2. Whe… |
| 21-1263 |
Marvin Gerber v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
anti-israel anti-jewish first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-of-religion harassment intimidation judicial-review religious-freedom speech-restriction |
Jewish worshippers entering their synagogue for worship on Saturday mornings for Sabbath services are harassed and intimidated by a group that assembl… |
| 21-5952 |
Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction |
Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional, because it cannot be interpreted, faithful to its plain text and consistent with congressional… |
| 21-405 |
Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law |
This case concerns, as far as Petitioner can determine, the first law in American history that restricts taxpayers' speech about a tax. It also concer… |
| 19-1091 |
Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety |
1. Whether a governme nt may ban expressive
conduc t without first trying to advance its interests
using less speech -restrictive measures , as the … |
| 19-983 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing |
1. Whether this Court's holding in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015), that laws restricting speech on the basis of its function or purpo… |
| 19-511 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 ("TCPA") to prohibit calls made to a cell phone without consent using an "automatic tel… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Respondents are United States-based organizations that receive federal funds to fight HIV/AIDS abroad. In Agency for International Development v. Alli… |
| 18-1516 |
Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction |
Chicago has made it a crime for a speaker to approach within eight feet of another person "for the purpose of passing a leaflet or handbill, displayin… |
| 18-1235 |
Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. |
California |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
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1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction |
1) Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based s… |
| 18-1000 |
American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination |
1. Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's "Support Free Speech" ads such that Respo… |