content-moderation
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A631 | John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Application | child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin… | |
| 24-864 | Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response Waived | anonymous-communication communications-decency-act content-moderation online-messaging products-liability section-230 | Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online anonymous messaging app from products liability claims where the app a… |
| 24-732 | Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., a Delaware corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | content-moderation first-amendment government-collaboration interactive-platform speech-suppression state-action | Does an interactive computer service provider become a state actor when it collaborates with government officials to suppress specific viewpoints, the… |
| 24A681 | TikTok, Inc., et al. v. Tawainna Anderson, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of N. A., a Deceased Minor | Third Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | algorithm-liability content-moderation first-amendment internet-platform section-230 third-party-speech | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online platforms from state-law claims based on algorithmic content curation and recom… | |
| 24A368 | Children's Health Defense v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Presumed Complete | content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-censorship misinformation social-media-platforms | Whether the First Amendment permits social media platforms to moderate content based on government-requested misinformation assessments without violat… | |
| 23-647 | Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing | Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, … |
| 23-5821 | Vanessa Sue Stafford v. Arizona | Arizona | 2023-10-17 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights content-moderation due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-corruption legal-statements public-platform standing | Whether Nextdoor has the right to take down legal statements about government corruption |
| 23A243 | Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Presumed Complete | Amici (5) | content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media | Whether the First Amendment prohibits the federal government from communicating with social media platforms regarding the removal or suppression of us… |
| 23-5160 | Scott Eric Houston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compelled-speech content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-regulation social-media | Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 22-753 | Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | communications-decency-act content-moderation due-process free-speech good-samaritan immunity interactive-computer-service-provider internet-service-provider section-230 | Proper scope of immunity under Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act | |
| 22-555 | NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (2) | content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination | Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about… |
| 22-375 | Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. | New York | 2022-10-21 | Denied | civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination | Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither facia… | |
| 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 | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the time… |
| 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… |
| 21-5223 | Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent | Whether the plaintiff's copyright and other intellectual property rights were violated by the defendants' unauthorized use of the plaintiff's content … |
| 20-7155 | James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation | Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with |
| 19-849 | Kristanalea Dyroff, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Wesley Greer v. Ultimate Software Group, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | civil-rights communications-decency-act content-moderation editorial-function editorial-functions free-speech immunity information-provider internet-immunity publisher publisher-liability section-230 | Does Section 230(c)(1) provide broad immunity or limit the definition of a publisher? |