prior-restraint
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1100 | Thomas Joseph Powell, et al. v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Ninth Circuit | 2026-03-19 | Pending | administrative-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint securities-regulation viewpoint-discrimination | The question presented is whether the SEC's Gag Rule violates the First Amendment. | |
| 25-1096 | Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark | South Carolina | 2026-03-18 | Pending | family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights prior-restraint strict-scrutiny | Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent's speech, based s… | |
| 25-1009 | National Association of Immigration Judges v. Daren K. Margolin, Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-24 | Pending | administrative-jurisdiction civil-service-reform-act federal-employee-speech first-amendment judicial-review prior-restraint | One year after this Court's decision in Thunder Basin Coal Co. v. Reich, 510 U.S. 200 (1994), the Court exercised jurisdiction over a pre-enforcement … | |
| 25-185 | Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California | California | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code | The California judiciary participates in red-light running camera ticket projects because it collects court fees from alleged violators as do the gove… |
| 24-1269 | Jeremiah Curtis-Shanley v. J.G. | Connecticut | 2025-06-12 | Denied | constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-speech prior-restraint | Did the State of Connecticut violate the petitioner's 1st and 14th Amendment rights when it imposed a no contact order (CPO) for speech/conduct that w… | |
| 24-7299 | Jerry L. Hoffman, Jr. v. Jose Delgado, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-05-28 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech municipal-ordinance prior-restraint public-forum | 1. Whether there exists a circuit split on municipal recording bans violating the First Amendment? 2. Whether a Middle District Court can dismiss wit… |
| 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 | Under the guise of protecting a 17½-year-old child, a New Jersey family court judge placed a blanket prohibition upon petitioner Jeanne Tamagny's ab… | |
| 24-842 | Adam Cole Shryock v. Colorado, ex rel. Philip J. Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado | Colorado | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | contempt-proceedings due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance prior-restraint sentencing-consequences | I. Whether the permanent injunction issued against Petitioner violated his First Amendment rights by constituting an unconstitutional prior restrain… |
| 24A372 | Joseph Nierman v. Juan M. Merchan, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County | New York | 2024-10-18 | Denied | constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech gag-order judicial-restraint prior-restraint | Question not identified. | |
| 23A875 | X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. United States | District of Columbia | 2024-04-01 | Presumed Complete | executive-privilege first-amendment nondisclosure-order presidential-records-act prior-restraint stored-communications-act | Question not identified. | |
| 23A820 | Spectrum WT, et al. v. Walter Wendler, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-06 | Denied | administrative-action campus-speech first-amendment prior-restraint student-expression viewpoint-discrimination | 1. Whether public university administrators violate the First Amendment when they ban student expression from campus simply because it offends others,… | |
| 23-450 | M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services | Indiana | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint | M.C. and J.C. are devout Christians who believe that God creates each person as immutably male or female and that, based on those beliefs and scientif… |
| 23-342 | X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Amici (2) | civil-rights content-based-restriction disclosure due-process first-amendment free-speech government-surveillance national-security prior-restraint speech-restriction | The U.S. Government conducts surveillance of Americans and foreign nationals by issuing "national security process" to electronic communication servic… |
| 23A68 | Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | attorney-conduct due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions prior-restraint | Question not identified. | |
| 23A32 | M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services | Indiana | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint | Question not identified. | |
| 22-1196 | GEFT Outdoor, L.L.C. v. Monroe County, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint procedural-safeguards speech-licensing zoning-ordinance | 1. Can a governmental entity escape 42 U.S.C. § 1983 liability for failing to have procedural safeguards in its speech licensing scheme by—only after … |
| 22-1135 | Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. National Abortion Federation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abortion abortion-debate civil-rights constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint public-debate public-discourse | Is the district court's suppression of speech about a high-profile and highly charged issue of public debate an unconstitutional prior restraint? |
| 22-7504 | Xingfei Luo v. Tomas Czodor | California | 2023-05-10 | Denied | IFP | content-based-restraint domestic-violence due-process evidence family-code first-amendment fourteenth-amendment prior-restraint restraining-order | Are a restrained party's due process rights under Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution violated by the issuance of a restraining ord… |
| 22-777 | William E. Henry v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-17 | Denied | Response Waived | butterworth-precedent compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy prior-restraint secrecy witness-testimony | Nearly 33 years ago, this Court decided Butterworth v. Smith, 494 U.S. 624 (1990), holding that grand jury secrecy laws restricting a grand jury witne… |
| 22-699 | Council for Education and Research on Toxics v. California Chamber of Commerce | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | federal-preemption first-amendment petition-rights preliminary-injunction prior-restraint public-interest-lawsuit public-interest-lawsuits state-court | 1. Does a preliminary injunction issued by a district judge enjoining a state attorney general and nongovernmental organizations from filing public in… |
| 22-665 | Gordon M. Price v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-01-19 | Denied | Amici (3) | commercial-speech content-based-restriction first-amendment permit-requirement prior-restraint public-forum | The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined enforcement of 54 U.S.C. § 100905, which directs the Secretary of the Interior to "requi… |
| 21-1497 | Scott Louis YoungBear v. Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights content-discrimination first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint religious-speech viewpoint-discrimination | Whether prior restraint, content-based or viewpoint discrimination was applied when religious speech in a civil complaint was censored per the "forbid… |
| 21-1402 | Outdoor One Communications LLC v. Charter Township of Canton, Michigan | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge content-based content-based-regulation first-amendment free-speech permit-requirement prior-restraint speech-restriction standing variance-scheme | 1. Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech. 2. Whe… |
| 21-1284 | Barry D. Romeril v. Securities and Exchange Commission | Second Circuit | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Amici (6) | constitutional-rights content-based-restriction due-process first-amendment prior-restraint sec-settlement viewpoint-based-restriction void-judgment | 1. Does it violate the First Amendment for the Securities and Exchange Commission to impose a requirement that any party with whom it settles must agr… |
| 21-7108 | Kevin Stephen Ryan v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2022-02-14 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment civil-rights content-based-restriction free-speech government-regulation prior-restraint | Question not identified. |
| 21-1113 | Brock Fredin v. Lindsey E. Middlecamp, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights district-court first-amendment free-speech inherent-judicial-powers inherent-powers injunctive-relief prior-restraint public-officials | On November 10, 2021, the Eighth Circuit ignored two-hundred and fifty years of First Amendment precedent and issued a breathtakingly unconstitutional… |
| 21-791 | Timothy H. Edgar, et al. v. Avril D. Haines, Director of National Intelligence, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-29 | Denied | Amici (3) | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech government-censorship national-security prepublication-review prior-restraint public-debate speech-licensing | 1. Whether Snepp should be overruled because it applied mere "reasonableness" scrutiny to an agency's prepublication review regime, and failed to requ… |
| 21-6199 | Robert M. Samson v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights free-speech government-speech prior-restraint public-forum viewpoint-discrimination | IS it a violation of State Statutory or Federal Law for Director Bob Schvoneix and the N.C.S.BI to detain myself or offer Individuals who no longer Re… |
| 20-1782 | Regina Therese Drexler v. Theresa Spahn, et al. | Colorado | 2021-06-23 | Denied | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-protection-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint section-1983 | 1. Whether the First Amendment permits the issuance of a civil protection order to (i) punish a "pattern" of conduct where such conduct includes only … | |
| 20-1627 | S. S., et al. v. S. B. | Pennsylvania | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Amici (3) | child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness | Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-944 | Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark | Tennessee | 2021-01-13 | Denied | appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition | 1. Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents ap… | |
| 19-1455 | Leigh Ann Youngblood-West v. Aflac Incorporated, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech hush-agreement judicial-recusal prior-restraint rumery standing | 1. Whether the injunction enforcing the hush agreements and sealing the evidence of Aflac's and Dan Amos' cover-up of Dr. Amos' serial assaults upon w… |
| 19-729 | Scott Howard Meyer v. Emily Peterson | Minnesota | 2019-12-10 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights custody-dispute due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech harassment-order parental-rights prior-restraint | When two parents are involved in an ongoing and contentious custody battle over a minor child, does one parent have a First Amendment right to critici… | |
| 19-713 | Paul E. Nunu v. Nancy Nunu Risk, et al. | Texas | 2019-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | abridged Petitioner's First-Amendment-right-to-pe as applied access-to-courts citizens-united-v-fec contempt court-access first-amendment petition-clause prior-restraint pro-se vexatious-litigant | 1. Whether the Texas Vexatious Litigant Statutes, as applied, abridged Petitioner's First Amendment unfettered core right to petition and to access Te… |
| 19-5876 | Joachim Dressler v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Racine County | Wisconsin | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | censorship civil-rights content-seizure criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-amendment free-speech freedman-v-maryland judicial-review prior-restraint procedural-safeguards southeastern-promotions-ltd-v-conrad | Do this Court's First Amendment "prior restraint" holdings that command "strict procedural safeguards" designed to obviate the dangers of a freewheeli… |
| 19-245 | GEFT Outdoor L.L.C. v. City of Westfield, Hamilton County, Indiana | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process facial-unconstitutionality first-amendment free-speech injunction ordinance-validity prior-restraint speech-rights standing | Whether a citizen who seeks to exercise core First Amendment rights must first seek and obtain an order from a court of competent jurisdiction invalid… |
| 19-17 | Alexander Collin Baker v. Clara Veseliza Baker | California | 2019-07-01 | Denied | civil-rights domestic-violence-prevention-act due-process federal-supremacy first-amendment free-speech prior-restraint right-to-petition separation-of-powers strict-scrutiny vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the DVPA's severable residual clause definition of "abuse" unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad? 2. Is the "abuse" definition in conflict … | |
| 18-1518 | Save Tacoma Water v. Port of Tacoma, et al. | Washington | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response Waived | ballot-access content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech initiative-power judicial-veto political-speech prior-restraint vagueness | Whether the First Amendment prohibits a state court from enjoining a qualified initiative from appearing on the ballot because the court believes that… |
| 18-1212 | Anthony Pappas v. Joseph Lorintz, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Supreme Court Judge of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-funds civil-procedure civil-rights divorce-court divorce-court-seizure due-process federal-campaign-finance federal-election federal-election-law free-speech judicial-error prior-restraint standing writ-of-mandamus | Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals commit reversible error when it denied a Writ of Mandamus sought by Petitioner as a candidate for Congress to … |
| 18-8381 | Christopher D. Schneider v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | censorship courthouse-access due-process Equal-access first-amendment hobsons-choice jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge jurisdiction-over-individual prior-restraint standing Structural-error | Did the Ninth Circuit Court and Tax Court choose to ignore the fact that both court lacked jurisdiction of Christopher David Schneider? Is it an unco… |
| 18-910 | City of San Diego, California v. Public Employment Relations Board | California | 2019-01-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | citizens-initiative civil-rights content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech government-code pension-reform preemption prior-restraint public-official viewpoint-based | Whether California Government Code section 3505, the "meet-and-confer" provision of the California Meyers-Milias-Brown Act [Cal. Gov't Code section 35… |
| 18-355 | Prison Legal News v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-19 | Denied | Amici (9) | 1st-amendment censorship civil-rights content-restriction corrections-policy due-process first-amendment free-speech media-rights prior-restraint prison prison-censorship | Petitioner produces an award-winning monthly publication, Prison Legal News, featuring content directed to the specialized interests of inmates, inclu… |
| 18-104 | Robert Philip Tuerk v. The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-disbarment attorney-discipline constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection freedom-of-travel freedom-to-travel prior-restraint reciprocal-discipline | 1. Whether the reciprocal upon reciprocal discipline of disbarment of an attorney by his home state that originally disciplined him for one (1) year a… |