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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
22-1148 North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) breach-of-loyalty content-neutral-statute first-amendment newsgathering private-property-rights property-rights trespass Whether a worker planted in a business to collect information for their true employer, and who does so in nonpublic areas of the business, is immunize…
22-1150 Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina, et al. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process duty-of-loyalty employee-rights employment-law first-amendment free-speech newsgathering property-protection standing tort-law Whether the First Amendment prohibits applying state tort law against double-agent employees who gather information, including by secretly recording, …
22-1147 Sandra Susan Merritt v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-25 Denied defamation first-amendment fraud free-speech journalistic-investigation newsgathering rico rico-act Whether the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause prevents the application of defamation liability and RICO to undercover newsgathering
20-1598 Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rachael S. Rollins, in Her Official Capacity as District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts First Circuit 2021-05-17 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights facial-overbreadth first-amendment free-speech newsgathering ripeness secret-recording speech-suppression standing Whether the First Amendment protects the right to secretly record oral communications