speech-restriction

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending 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 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 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 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 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…