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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-672 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-10 Pending Amici (4) circuit-split constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern public-employee-speech This case presents a clear, recognized, and entrenched conflict over the First Amendment rights of public employees: whether speech made as a private …
25A362 Kate Adams v. Sacramento County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete employment-retaliation first-amendment matter-of-public-concern ninth-circuit public-employee racist-speech Question not identified.
18-1451 National Review, Inc. v. Michael E. Mann District of Columbia 2019-05-21 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) defamation first-amendment free-speech matter-of-public-concern opinion-speech provably-false provably-false-factual-connotation public-concern public-policy-debate scientific-controversy scientific-misconduct subjective-opinion Whether a statement contains a 'provably false' factual connotation is a question of law for the court, not a question of fact for the jury