Whether a state occupational licensing board is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor incidental to conduct simply because the speaker was subject to professional licensure

In its coming Term, this Court will address occupational speech issues in the pending matter of Chiles v. Salazar (No. 24-539), cert. granted , 145 S. Ct. 1328 (2025). Meanwhile, at least three other certiorari petitions in cases involving occupati onal speech are being held pending the decision in Chiles (including Crownholm v. Moore (No. 24-276), 360 Virtual Drone Servs. LLC v. Ritter (No. 24-279), and Hines v. Pardue (No. 24920)). In this case raising similar legal issues as Chiles , the question presented is: whether a state occupational licensing boar d is entitled to apply a lower standard of constitutional scrutiny to speech that is neither commercial nor incidental to conduct simply because the sp eaker was subject to professional licensure.