content-neutrality

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-948 Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York Second Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a…
25-338 Simon Ateba v. Karoline C. Leavitt, in Her Official Capacity as Press Secretary to the President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2025-09-23 Denied Response Waived content-neutrality first-amendment judicial-review press-access speech-licensing viewpoint-discrimination Whether the existence of unbridled discretion in a speech-licensing regime constitutes per se viewpoint discrimination or is merely assessed for const…
24-1083 Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny New Jersey 2025-04-16 Denied content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint Whether a court's prior restraint on speech must be content-neutral, narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and leave open am…
24-1061 Project Veritas, et al. v. Nathan Vasquez, in His Official Capacity as Multnomah County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-04-09 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny newsgathering speech-restriction supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit err by holding that Oregon's prohibition of unannounced recordings is content neutral and inconsistent with Supreme Court preced…
24-932 Pierre Kory, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-02-27 Pending Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-neutrality first-amendment medical-communication physician-speech strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Whether the Ninth Circuit's rule that all physician communications with patients are unprotected by the First Amendment is consistent with NIFLA and s…
24A556 Rory Douglas Wilson v. Idaho Idaho 2024-12-06 Presumed Complete content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance public-property viewpoint-discrimination Whether a municipal ordinance prohibiting the posting of notices on public property violates the First Amendment when its enforcement is based on view…
23A1062 Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2024-05-29 Presumed Complete buffer-zone content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny public-forum speech-restriction Whether a municipal ordinance creating a fixed buffer zone around healthcare facilities that restricts close-proximity speech violates the First Amend…
23-1189 Jeryl Turco v. City of Englewood, New Jersey Third Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (11) abortion-clinic buffer-zones civil-rights content-neutrality due-process first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado public-forum sidewalk-counseling speech-suppression standing Whether the City of Englewood's speech-free buffer zones, including zones outside an abortion clinic, violate the First Amendment
23-835 Association of Club Executives of Dallas, Inc., et al. v. City of Dallas, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response Waived content-based content-neutral content-neutrality evidentiary-burden first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny secondary-effects sexually-oriented-businesses strict-scrutiny Does the secondary-effects-doctrine survive Reed-v-Town-of-Gilbert and City-of-Austin-v-Reagan-National-Advertising
23-389 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination whether-the-test-for-content-neutrality-should-be-overruled
23-5272 Grace Woodham v. Helen Hanks, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Corrections, et al. New Hampshire 2023-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
23-74 Debra A. Vitagliano v. County of Westchester, New York Second Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Amici (18)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic-protests constitutional-law content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech precedent public-forum stare-decisis Whether the Court should overrule Hill v. Colorado
22-6143 Blake Sandlain v. C. Maruka, Warden Fourth Circuit 2022-11-22 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
21-7963 Steven Strong Bear Stevenson v. California California 2022-05-24 Denied IFP civil-rights content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation public-forum viewpoint-discrimination Whether the First Amendment protects the right of private citizens to participate in a public forum, even if their participation is deemed offensive o…
20-893 Duane Ronald Belanus v. Lynn Guyer, Warden Montana 2021-01-05 Denied Response Waived compelled-speech content-neutrality free-speech government-regulation private-entities public-forum Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech with which they disagree
20-6008 Brian Evans v. Kaiali'i Kahele Hawaii 2020-10-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech government-regulation private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from compelling private entities to host and disseminate speech they disagree with
19-8507 Dominique R. Taylor v. Corporation Worldwide Eighth Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied IFP commercial-speech compelled-speech content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech private-property whether-the-government-can-compel-a-private-party-to-host-speech-it-disagrees-with
19-1201 Clay Bright, Tennessee Commissioner of Transportation v. William Harold Thomas, Jr. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Relisted (2) commercial-speech content-neutrality first-amendment highway-beautification-act noncommercial-speech off-premises-signs on-premises-signs reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert sign-regulation Whether a sign regulation containing an exception for on-premises signs, for which both commercial and noncommercial speech may qualify, violates the …
19-1184 Nikki Bruni, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Amici (10)Response RequestedRelisted (5) buffer-zone circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-interpretation content-neutrality due-process federalism first-amendment free-speech judicial-construction narrow-tailoring overbreadth standing state-law Whether federal courts have authority to save a state or local law from unconstitutionality by positing a limiting construction that has no state-law …
19-983 Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing Whether Reed v. Town of Gilbert overruled Hill v. Colorado
18-9605 Don Ferguson v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 7th-amendment compelled-speech content-neutrality criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial first-amendment free-speech government-regulation jury-instructions private-entities Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with
18-1516 Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction Whether the Court should reconsider Hill v. Colorado in light of Reed v. Town of Gilbert and McCullen v. Coakley
18-7931 Michael Keith Henley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure compelled-speech content-neutrality due-process fraudulent-plea-agreement free-speech government-regulation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miscarriage-of-justice private-property public-forum standing Whether the First Amendment prohibits the government from requiring private entities to host speech they disagree with