protected-speech

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1094 Louis B. Antonacci v. Rahm Emanuel, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-04-21 Denied Response Waived cyberespionage due-process protected-speech racketeering rico-enterprise subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner Antonacci has properly alleged that Respondents are architects of a criminal RICO enterprise engaged in racketeering activity again…
23-1188 Jonathon Owen Shroyer v. United States District of Columbia 2024-05-03 Denied Response Waived appeal-waiver first-amendment free-speech protected-speech relevant-conduct relevant-offense-conduct sentencing substantive-reasonableness Whether a prison sentence imposed as a result of the consideration of protected speech as 'relevant offense conduct' violates the First Amendment and …
23-1122 Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-04-16 Judgment Issued Amici (45)Relisted (2) adults-access constitutional-rights content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech protected-speech rational-basis rational-basis-review strict-scrutiny Whether the court of appeals erred as a matter of law in applying rational-basis review to a law burdening adults' access to protected speech, instead…
23-7158 Russell Dean Alford v. United States District of Columbia 2024-04-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-law due-process first-amendment free-speech overbreadth political-expression protected-speech secret-service statutory-interpretation vagueness Whether 'disorderly' and 'disruptive' in 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(2) and 40 U.S.C. § 5104(e)(2)(D) narrow the types of conduct criminalized, or refer only …
23-895 Richard Rogalinski v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response Waived censorship civil-procedure civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech protected-speech social-media standing state-action Whether the Petitioner sufficiently stated a claim for relief under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution
23-156 Speech First, Inc. v. Timothy Sands, Individually and in His Official Capacity as President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fourth Circuit 2023-08-17 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (9) bias-response-team bias-response-teams chilling-effect circuit-split first-amendment free-speech protected-speech student-rights university-administration Do bias-response teams objectively chill students' free speech?
21-716 David Sivella v. Township of Lyndhurst, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied criminal-investigation employer-liability first-amendment free-speech protected-speech public-employment retaliation whistleblower Does the First Amendment bar a public employer from initiating a baseless criminal investigation in retaliation for a public employee engaging in prot…
21-6221 David Jackson v. Massachusetts Department of Correction Massachusetts 2021-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech prisoner-rights protected-speech racial-discrimination solitary-confinement true-threat Whether petitioner's letter constitutes protected speech or a true threat
21-213 Nathaniel Borrell Dyer v. Atlanta Independent School System Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied due-process first-amendment free-speech limited-public-forum protected-speech public-figures public-forum satirical-flyer satirical-speech viewpoint-discrimination Whether Atlanta Independent School System violated Mr. Dyer's First Amendment right to free-speech by categorically banning him from using protected-s…
20-1635 Michael Anthony Casillas v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-05-24 Denied civil-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process first-amendment free-speech mens-rea nonconsensual-dissemination obscenity protected-speech strict-scrutiny Does the First Amendment allow a state to criminalize protected speech by means of a statute aimed at prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of s…
20-5220 Gerald Lee Groomes v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-nudity child-pornography constitutional-rights criminal-statute first-amendment lewd-exhibition overbreadth protected-expression protected-speech vagueness Does a state's unreasonable application of a criminal statute prohibiting the possession of images depicting a 'lewd exhibition' of child nudity in a …
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at …
18-722 Soundboard Association v. Federal Trade Commission District of Columbia 2018-12-06 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (4) administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-rulemaking arbitrary-and-capricious chilled-speech chilling-effect federal-trade-commission judicial-review protected-speech rulemaking staff-advisory-opinion Do Petitioners have a right to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act of a Federal Trade Commission staff advisory opinion that effect…
18-696 Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes?
18-6272 Gregory Steshenko v. Thomas McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP academic-expulsion civil-procedure civil-rights disciplinary-expulsion due-process education employment fourteenth-amendment free-speech mixed-motive mixed-motive-defense protected-speech spoliation-of-evidence standing Whether the mixed-motive defense doctrine of Mt. Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v. Doyle, 429 U.S. 274, 287 (1977) in employment terminations fo…