content-neutrality
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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 |