No. 22-434

Slade Alan Moore v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2022-11-09
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication first-amendment free-speech harassment intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine
Key Terms:
FirstAmendment HabeasCorpus Privacy
Latest Conference: 2023-02-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED A Texas statute criminalizes sending repeated electronic communications with the intent and likely result of “harassing, annoying, alarming, abusing, tormenting, embarrassing or offending” another. Because the law would be violated by the repeated sending of communications that contain no expressive content, like a blank email, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals concluded that it “proscribes non-speech conduct” and does not implicate the First Amendment, even though the law would in most cases be violated by the repeated sending of expressive communications. The court thus rejected Petitioners’ facial overbreadth challenges to the criminal statute. The questions presented are: 1. Is a law that criminalizes expressive speech immunized from any First Amendment scrutiny if it also criminalizes non-expressive conduct? 2. Is a law that punishes the repeated sending of electronic communications with intent and likely result to “harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, embarrass, or offend” another unconstitutionally overbroad? (i)

Docket Entries

2023-02-21
Petition DENIED.
2023-01-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/17/2023.
2023-01-23
2023-01-09
2022-11-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including January 9, 2023.
2022-11-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from December 9, 2022 to January 9, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2022-11-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 9, 2022)
2022-10-05
Application (22A219) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until November 7, 2022.
2022-09-26
Application (22A219) to extend further the time from October 6, 2022 to November 19, 2022, submitted to Justice Alito.
2022-09-13
Application (22A219) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until October 6, 2022.
2022-09-08
Application (22A219) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 20, 2022 to October 6, 2022, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

Slade Moore
Lane Andrew HaygoodBailey & Galyen, Petitioner
Lane Andrew HaygoodBailey & Galyen, Petitioner
State of Texas
Judd Edward Stone IITexas Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Judd Edward Stone IITexas Attorney General's Office, Respondent