chilling-effect

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-716 Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied Response Waived article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective and Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Police …
24A558 Nicholas Paul Somberg v. Karen D. McDonald, Prosecutor, Oakland County Prosecutor's Office Sixth Circuit 2024-12-09 Presumed Complete chilling-effect constitutional-challenge criminal-prohibition first-amendment governmental-punishment pre-enforcement-standing Whether a plaintiff has pre-enforcement standing to challenge a criminal statute that potentially chills First Amendment-protected activities without …
23-1135 Saline Parents, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General District of Columbia 2024-04-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) chilling-effect domestic-terrorism first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance reputational-harm standing Standing-to-challenge-government-policy
23A754 Harisadhan Patra, et ux. v. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete chilling-effect first-amendment inter-circuit-split retaliation speech-suppression summary-judgment Whether the First Amendment protects public employees from prospective speech suppression and retaliatory actions when raising concerns about institut…
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Do bias-response teams objectively chill students' free speech?
22-7581 Michael D. Beiter, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-records chilling-effect court-precedent due-process government-action grand-jury legal-relief legal-rights penalization procedural-limitation prosecutorial-misconduct selective-prosecution Whether a person is precluded from doing what the law plainly allows them to do, as the government pursues a course of action to penalize a person's r…
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 Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-247 Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government Fifth Circuit 2021-08-20 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech Should the Lanham Act be extended to non-commercial political speech?
20-7304 Robert Phillip Ivers v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)IFP attorney-client-privilege chilling-effect common-law communication-scope confidential-communication eighth-circuit evidentiary-privilege federal-common-law legal-advice legal-profession privileged-communication Whether a confidential attorney-client phone call made for the primary purpose of obtaining legal advice is protected in its entirety by the attorney-…
18-722 Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission District of Columbia 2018-12-06 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect…