content-based-regulation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-881 Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. Georgia, et al. Georgia 2025-02-18 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based-regulation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny reed-v-gilbert strict-scrutiny tax-law Whether a tax targeting businesses based on expressive content is subject to strict or intermediate First Amendment scrutiny
24-539 Kaley Chiles v. Patty Salazar, in Her Official Capacity as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-11-13 Granted Amici (113)Relisted (4) content-based-regulation counseling-restriction first-amendment free-speech gender-identity viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that censors certain conversations between counselors and their clients based on the viewpoints expressed regulates conduct or violates …
23-1225 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Fourth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 303-creative-llc-v-elenis commercial-speech compelled-speech content-based-regulation expert-testimony first-amendment nifla zauderer zauderer-standard Whether the court of appeals impermissibly allowed the County to violate Petitioners' First Amendment right 'to remain silent,' as reaffirmed in 303 C…
23-463 Elizabeth Brokamp v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-11-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split content-based content-based-regulation evidence first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny licensing-scheme motion-to-dismiss talk-therapy Whether a New York law requiring speakers to obtain a license before offering talk therapy pertaining to 'disabilit[ies], problem[s], or disorder[s] o…
22-1196 GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance Can a governmental entity escape 42 US.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after bein…
22-1033 Eugene Mazo, et al. v. Tahesha Way, New Jersey Secretary of State, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ballot ballot-restrictions civil-rights content-based-regulation content-regulation election first-amendment free-speech political-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Whether a state that permits political candidates to engage in core political speech on the ballot may restrict that speech on the basis of content an…
22-865 Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2023-03-10 Denied Amici (4) campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment
21-1402 Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech
21-476 303 Creative LLC, et al. v. Aubrey Elenis, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-09-28 Judgment Issued Amici (90)Relisted (4) anti-discrimination-law compelled-speech content-based content-based-regulation free-exercise free-speech religious-beliefs religious-liberty viewpoint-discrimination Whether applying a law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent, contrary to the artist's sincerely held religious beliefs, violates the Free Speec…
20-7780 James Plas Sams v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation content-based-regulation expressive-association first-amendment free-speech group-grievance retaliation Did California's actions violate the right of expressive-association and constitute content-based-discrimination?
20-1029 City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-28 Judgment Issued Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) billboard-regulation content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech metromedia municipal-law reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-code strict-scrutiny Is the city code's distinction between on- and off-premise signs a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under Reed?
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications
18-1244 David Pickup, et al. v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response Waived abrogation civil-rights content-based content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall recall-mandate supreme-court-precedent Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it refused to recall its mandate after this Court explicitly abrogated its opinion by name
18-1235 Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. California 2019-03-22 Denied 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based spee…
18-1182 Scott Ogle v. Texas Texas 2019-03-12 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights content-based-regulation criminal-law criminal-statute due-process electronic-communication electronic-communications first-amendment free-speech intent-standard overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine Does a statute criminalizing electronically communicated speech that is both intended and reasonably likely to annoy, alarm, or embarrass another pers…
18-1073 Tara King, et al. v. Phil Murphy, Governor of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction due-process extraordinary-circumstances first-amendment free-speech irreparable-harm mandate-recall standing supreme-court-precedent takings Whether a lower court mandate should be recalled when the Supreme Court expressly abrogates the ruling by name and the lower court opinion continues t…