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24-5242 Marcus Jarrod Payne v. The Anthony Scott Law Firm, P.L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied IFP bankruptcy censorship constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment After divorcing the Eley (Payne) respondent, Petitioner was minding his own affairs, proceeding through post-divorce bankruptcy when Eley (Payne) resu…
23-895 Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action The Executive Branch of the United States Government acted in concert with Meta Platforms, Inc., to censor protected speech. The questions presented …
23-73 Colleen Huber v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights conspiracy first-amendment free-speech pleading-stage pleading-standards social-media-regulation state-action twombly-iqbal Petitioner Dr. Colleen Huber sued President Biden (in his official capacity) and Twitter for censoring Dr. Huber's speech on Twitter critical of the B…
22-1199 Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action In 2018, California created the Office of Election Cybersecurity. State law empowers the Office "[t]o monitor and counteract false or misleading infor…
22-6734 In Re Lee Kent Hempfling, et ux. 2023-02-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP censorship civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction criminal-investigation due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-standing standing writ-of-mandamus 1: Whether the listed state and federal court actions are parallel to any legally invoked criminal investigation of prosecution stemming from crimes r…
22-277 Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-23 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner 1. Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the t…
22-5315 Ryan Rydell Bonner v. Texas Texas 2022-08-09 Denied IFP burden-of-proof censorship clear-and-present-danger constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation statutory-vagueness -QuESTID nI I.) CoMsfifuTlO/vlAL IavJ To-\a1 it SfftTi/tfeS,, ElRST AM0\lDM0\tT AMD STATUTORY V/AfcUENlESS : Because ; First fcMDMQvT freedoms meed Me…
21-7282 Joshua Davis Bland v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP censorship compelling-interest equal-protection fourteenth-amendment least-restrictive-means r-l-u-i-p-a religious-freedom religious-practice rluipa 1) Does a state prison have the right to void an inmate's religious practice if the state prison refuses to recognize the inmate's religion, and claim…
21-6354 Erik Mishiyev v. Alphabet Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied IFP 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech platform-liability standing youtube-censorship Whether The United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit Order allowed YouTube to deprive the Petitioner of his Due Process rights under the 1…
21-419 Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Response Waived 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media 1. Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, at 1736-1736, 198 L. Ed. 2d 273 (2017) that First Amendment protections…
20-6611 John Paul Mullaney v. University of St. Thomas Minnesota 2020-12-11 Denied IFP academic-sanctions censorship civil-rights discovery discovery-rule due-process ferpa fifth-amendment Is the intent of FERPA to protect the privacy of student and faculty as a preliminary subsociety, not use 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(B)(i&ii) in a puniti…
19-968 Chike Uzuegbunam, et al. v. Stanley C. Preczewski, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-03 Judgment Issued Amici (32)Relisted (2) censorship civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-policy mootness nominal-damages standing Whether a government's post-filing change of an unconstitutional policy moots nominal-damages claims that vindicate the government's past, completed v…
19-728 Brian Davison v. Facebook, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-rights delegation-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech government-delegation private-forum public-forum standing standing-to-sue 1. Whether a person has standing to sue the government for a delegation of censorship authority to a private party when his speech on a topic of publi…
19-5999 Natasha Delima v. YouTube, Inc., et al. First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP antitrust censorship civil-procedure civil-rights digital-property due-process first-amendment platform-censorship retaliation standing virtual-property website-regulation Why did the judge issue a "Motion for Leave " on all of the Petitioners pleadings? Why did the judge not issue a default ruling for the Respondents th…
19-5876 Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County Wisconsin 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli…
18-9068 Dennis Rydbom v. Lisa Boggs, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP access-to-information catalog-ban censorship civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech mail-censorship penological-objectives prisoner-rights Prison officials withheld mail addressed to prisoner Dennis Rydbom; such mail being (1) an Edward R. Hamilton book catalog, and (2) a National Academy…
18-8381 Christopher D. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP censorship courthouse-access due-process Equal-access first-amendment hobsons-choice jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge jurisdiction-over-individual prior-restraint standing Structural-error Did the Ninth Circuit Court and Tax Court choose to ignore the fact that both court lacked jurisdiction of Christopher David Schneider? Is it an unco…
18-355 Prison Legal News v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-19 Denied Amici (9) 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-restriction corrections-policy due-process first-amendment free-speech media-rights prior-restraint prison prison-censorship Petitioner produces an award-winning monthly publication, Prison Legal News, featuring content directed to the specialized interests of inmates, inclu…
18-43 Jesse Loor v. Jenny Bailey, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Response Waived as-applied-challenge censorship civil-rights correctional-institutions due-process facial-challenge first-amendment mail-regulations prison-mail prison-regulations thornburgh-v-abbott Whether the facial validity of a mail regulation automatically defeats an as-applied challenge to a jail's censorship of particular publications?