First Amendment: Supreme Court Considers Gov’t Officials’ Social Media Behavior
Lower courts couldn't agree on whether a government official can block citizens from a personal social media account that is used to share official information....
Lower courts couldn't agree on whether a government official can block citizens from a personal social media account that is used to share official information....
Administrative Stay issued pending oral argument on November 20....
The Court agreed to hear the case, which could affect how the First Amendment is applied when it comes to social media....
"CISA—working in close connection with the FBI—held regular industry meetings with the platforms...
"A bare majority of Democrats (53%) say speech should be legal under any circumstances, while 47% say it should be legal 'only under certain circumstances.'”...
The appeals court affirmed a lower court's refusal to dismiss the professor's lawsuit on grounds his attorney called 'hyper-technical' and aimed at delaying proceedings....
The pause is only until September 27. Maybe all of the justices are writing opinions on it....
The former DEI head at New College in Florida goes by 'ze/zir.' Is 'mispronouning' a crime now? ...
"the enjoined Defendants cannot coerce or significantly encourage a platform’s content-moderation decisions"...
"The City's decision to exclude Country Mill Farms from the 2017 East Lansing Farmer's Market constituted a burden on Plaintiffs' religious beliefs."...
The revised requirement came after heated exchanges between the reporter and White House Press Secretary over the White House's alleged refusal to answer the reporter's questions....
Finds alleged defamatory statements about Sandmann's encounter with an activist banging a drum in his face were non-actional opinion....
The bakery has been embroiled in a decade-long dispute with Colorado officials over using the state's anti-discrimination law to compel speech....
Indeed, at its core, 303 Creative v. Aubrey Elenis was not about whether a business may discriminate because of its own beliefs, but rather whether the state may compel speech of a particular opinion even out of a desire to achieve equal access in the...
It's not a decision on the merits, it puts a temporary hold until the court can determine the merits of the District Court injunction that prohibited government collusion with big tech and big social media to silence and censor political opponents....
The thrust of the motion for a stay focuses on the scope of the preliminary injunction, claiming it is overly broad and prohibits speech protected by the First Amendment. That may resonate with an appeals court, and specific injunctive language is the weakest link in...
"The Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the Government has used its power to silence the opposition...
"The framers designed the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to protect the 'freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think.'"...
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