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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A599 | Meta Platforms, Inc., et al. v. Vermont | Vermont | 2025-11-20 | Presumed Complete | forum-state internet-contacts personal-jurisdiction purposeful-availment social-media specific-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 25-568 | Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | brand-identity intellectual-property platform-rights social-media trademark user-generated-content | Who owns the trademark for a user-created online community on a social media platform: the social media platform that provides the technical infrastru… |
| 25A97 | NetChoice, LLC v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Amici (8) | age-verification content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech parental-consent social-media | Question not identified. |
| 25-5072 | Khaled Miah v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-law first-amendment interstate-communication social-media statutory-interpretation terroristic-threat | Can an online social media post that at most forewarns of a possible future terroristic attack violate 18 U.S.C. § 875(c), if the post does not identi… |
| 24A588 | Brian Firebaugh, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | District of Columbia | 2024-12-16 | Granted | Amici (2) | content-restriction first-amendment foreign-ownership free-speech social-media tiktok | Question not identified. |
| 24A587 | TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance Ltd. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General. | District of Columbia | 2024-12-16 | Granted | Amici (5) | bill-of-attainder content-restriction first-amendment free-speech national-security social-media | Question not identified. |
| 24-5092 | Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | IFP | digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant | 1. Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent "all-data" warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation whatsoever, w… |
| 23-1062 | Mark Changizi, et al. v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | article-iii-standing civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-interference public-health-policy social-media social-media-censorship standing | Petitioners are three individual users of a social media platform who allege that federal officials violated their First Amendment rights by inducing … |
| 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 | The Executive Branch of the United States Government acted in concert with Meta Platforms, Inc., to censor protected speech. The questions presented … |
| 23-774 | Melissa Groo v. Amy Eddy, Judge, Montana Eleventh Judicial District Court | Montana | 2024-01-17 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process forum-state intentional-tort non-resident-defendant personal-jurisdiction purposeful-direction social-media walden-v-fiore | Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a non-resident defendant in an intentional tort c… |
| 23A243 | Vivek H. Murthy, Surgeon General, et al. v. Missouri, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-14 | Granted | Amici (5) | content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-speech injunction social-media | Question not identified. |
| 23-5160 | Scott Eric Houston v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compelled-speech content-moderation first-amendment free-speech government-regulation social-media | 00 rii.q+ri C/vjp+ ComplifiH 4Kp Lnn'ic;,nnn ^upriomP C C\t/f>+ nprlpr 9 |
| 22-1199 | Rogan O'Handley v. Shirley N. Weber, California Secretary of State, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-12 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | censorship first-amendment free-speech government-speech online-censorship political-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-action | In 2018, California created the Office of Election Cybersecurity. State law empowers the Office "[t]o monitor and counteract false or misleading infor… |
| 22-7128 | James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media | Is Louisiana's statute that prohibits child-sex-offender registrants from using social media meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina stat… |
| 22-6715 | Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance | Question not identified. |
| 22-6601 | Rick Benavides v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process entrapment evidence-admissibility government-inducement law-enforcement-conduct predisposition social-media | Petitioner was subjected to a pervasive inducement campaign by government agents using social media and texts to his personal phone. The question pres… |
| 22-611 | Kevin Lindke v. James R. Freed | Sixth Circuit | 2023-01-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9)Relisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny first-amendment free-speech government-duty government-official public-forum public-official social-media state-action | Whether a public official's social media activity can constitute state action only if the official used the account to perform a governmental duty or … |
| 22-555 | NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (8)Relisted (2) | content-moderation editorial-discretion first-amendment free-speech free-speech-rights social-media social-media-regulation viewpoint-discrimination | Whether the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-, content-, or speaker-based laws restricting select websites from engaging in editorial choices about… |
| 22-6269 | Ronald W. Telepo v. Leroy Ferguson, et al. | Third Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymity civil-rights due-process free-speech internet social-media | Dip The PeTiTioN dewie 8 A FULL AND FAiR HEARING Is The b AN t oy S mokit g insise oncshoMtUnaouititicws A fkeedom of Exppessioor riolttior WAS PETIT … |
| 22-532 | Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 1996-interactive-computer-service common-carrier common-law-common-carrier constitutional-right-to-non-discriminatory-common- digital-property first-amendment first-amendment-right-to-refuse-message-common-car hosting-of-digital-personal-literary-property-as-s interactive-computer-service logical-fallacy-in-statute-interpretation public-forum social-media | 1. Whether digital personal literary property, which a Defendant carries in the form of a post, com ment, or tweet, is "other property " according to… |
| 22-324 | Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (12)Relisted (3) | blocking-access circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech public-official social-media standing state-action | Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media a… |
| 22-277 | Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. v. NetChoice, LLC, dba NetChoice, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-23 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) | censorship content-moderation first-amendment free-speech social-media social-media-regulation state-law state-regulation third-party-communications time-place-manner | 1. Whether the First Amendment prohibits a State from requiring that social-media companies host third-party communications, and from regulating the t… |
| 22-267 | Glenn Arcaro v. Albert Parks, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | Response Waived | cryptocurrency investment-liability pinter-v-dahl securities-act social-media social-media-promotion standing statutory-seller | Section 12(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 provides that anyone who "offers" or "sells" an unregistered security "shall be liable ... to the perso… |
| 22-5286 | Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media | 1. WHAT IS THE PROBABLE CAUSE TO ARREST SOMEONE FOR ALLEGEDLY SENDING TWO ANONYMOUS MESSAGES FROM TWO DIFFERENT SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS WHICH WAS NEIT… |
| 21-1502 | Jeff Swanson v. Couy Griffin, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-01 | Denied | civil-liberties first-amendment free-speech public-forum qualified-immunity social-media viewpoint-discrimination | Did the Tenth Circuit err in reversing the decision of the District Court that Commissioner Couy Griffin was not entitled to qualified immunity after … | |
| 21-7615 | Randolph Codner, aka Jah Rastafari Malchizdek v. Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure due-process facebook habeas-corpus personal-jurisdiction social-media | /\sdr Mpov4wl<A/ nfx, 1\\mMTk KMeii/l wj om- sflwf/iW •ov/eK' Jxsje\y\A'^ Hal wiw <a/~1 0iA,-tStl®Vl 16 op a 4AhT -/Alt (cMJtv' cj6 op ityiSii/lP … |
| 21-6837 | John Ragin v. Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Newport News | Virginia | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights free-speech government-speech public-forum social-media standing | Question not identified. |
| 21-581 | Allen H. Loughry, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-20 | Denied | criminal-procedure extrajudicial-communication juror-contact juror-misconduct presumptive-prejudice remmer-hearing sixth-amendment social-media social-media-evidence trial-integrity | In Remmer v. United States, 347 U.S. 227, 229 (1954), the Court held that "any private communication, contact, or tampering directly or indirectly, wi… | |
| 21-419 | Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media | 1. Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina, 137 S. Ct. 1730, at 1736-1736, 198 L. Ed. 2d 273 (2017) that First Amendment protections… |
| 21-5434 | Demontrae Wilson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authentication circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidentiary-standards lay-witness social-media social-media-evidence | Social media evidence presents unique foundational issues and is now a nearly ubiquitous component of many criminal cases. The standards for admission… |
| 21-5416 | Donnell Bledsoe v. Facebook, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights first-amendment free-speech petition-government social-media viewpoint-discrimination | Question not identified. |
| 21-5223 | Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-28 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent | The lower counts over looked The plant Statement on isty fhis appents Shrerdd v ge forwacd. the lowee couts wever reviewed the hodging Of EXIBET LLL A… |
| 20-1784 | Ohio v. Daniel Deuble | Ohio | 2021-06-23 | Denied | 4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media | 1. Whether probable cause existed under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activ… | |
| 20-8081 | Melvin Roshard Alfred v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rules-of-evidence intrinsic-evidence misconduct-evidence rule-404(b) rule-404b social-media uncharged-misconduct | Whether uncharged misconduct evidence that does not directly prove the charged crime may be deemed "intrinsic evidence" and admitted without the admis… |
| 20-7155 | James Scott, Jr. v. Norm Robinson, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 1st-amendment administrative-law civil-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law content-moderation free-speech judicial-review legal-procedure social-media statutory-interpretation | Does the Petitioner have the right to Due Process Equal Law lanse And Jury Trial as guarecd the Cthaudrth b Vou.d Count abuse ifs dxenetod or Sensiaic… |
| 20-197 | Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-08-20 | GVR | Relisted (15) | blocking first-amendment free-speech government-official personal-account public-forum social-media twitter-blocking | Whether the First Amendment deprives a government official of his right to control his personal Twitter account by blocking third-party accounts if he… |
| 20-165 | Angela L. Carroll v. Timothy W. Miller | Wisconsin | 2020-08-14 | Denied | 14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment impartiality judicial-ethics recusal social-media standing | Was the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment violated by a judge and party being Facebook "friends"? | |
| 19-6034 | Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice | Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig… |
| 18-1555 | Scott A. Boyler v. City of Lackawanna, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | aggravated-harassment constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech free-speech,civil-rights,retaliation,qualified-imm malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity retaliation social-media summary-judgment | 1. Did the Second Circuit err in adopting a subjective test for whether retaliation chilled free speech, contrary to at least six other Circuits that … |
| 18-8129 | Charles Russell v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-25 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission reasonable-doubt social-media social-media-evidence witness-testimony | Did the Trial Court relieve the state of its burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt when it allowed the state to show the jury photos found o… |
| 18-6928 | Asia Johnson v. Christopher Wylie, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights compensation data-misuse data-privacy data-protection due-process facebook-litigation government-surveillance personal-information privacy privacy-violation social-media standing third-party-access | Asia Johnson v Christopher Wylie case number 2-18-cv-00415 Was submitted for possible dismissal stating that this action is frivolous or malicious. F… |
| 18-6573 | Malik Farrad v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment authentication circuit-split corpus-delicti due-process facebook hearsay police-action social-media | Question I - The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals' lower standard of authentication by third parties for social media postings being what they are claim… |