speech-rights
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-891 | Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights | Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by the local government because such violence serves as useful p… |
| 23-227 | Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Amici (4) | circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights | 1. Whether words printed on clothing are pure speech, and thus presumptively entitled to First Amendment protection—as the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Ci… |
| 23-220 | Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. | New York | 2023-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | bias-standard first-amendment free-speech judicial-disqualification probability-of-bias public-hearing public-hearings redistricting speech-rights | On 27 May 2022, the Rockland County Legislature enacted Local Law 6-2022 which extended Covid era measures allowing legislators to attend meetings … |
| 22-212 | Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver | The Court in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31 held it violates the First Amendment for a state and union to compel employees to subsidize union speech. 138… |
| 21-951 | Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-29 | Denied | ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine | This Court has held that a plaintiff may challenge the constitutionality of a burden on speech by alleging that it objectively deters people from exer… | |
| 21-571 | Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine | Texas | 2021-10-20 | Denied | class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions | New York Times v. Sullivan , 376 U.S. 254 (1964) establishes that speech must be "of and concerning" a specific individual for that individual to stat… | |
| 20-1334 | Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-24 | Denied | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination | Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent … |
| 20-5044 | Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement | 1. Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena? 2. Can an attorney be held in contempt for failing to cooperate with the Govern… |
| 19-245 | GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing | Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid… |