| 25-948 |
Upsolve, Inc., et al. v. Letitia James, Attorney General of New York |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
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content-neutrality first-amendment legal-advice nonprofit-speech speech-restriction unauthorized-practice-of-law |
Is a law whose application is triggered by communicating about a particular topic nonetheless content-neutral so long as the law can be described as a… |
| 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… |
| 24-756 |
National Federation of the Blind of Texas, Incorporated, et al. v. City of Arlington, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
charitable-solicitation first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny private-property-rights speech-restriction zoning-regulation |
Whether the most exacting scrutiny applies to a municipal ban on donation boxes for charitable solicitations |
| 24A613 |
Keith Pardue, Vice President, Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, et al. v. Ronald S. Hines |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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first-amendment licensing professional-regulation speech-restriction state-authority veterinary-medicine |
Whether a state law regulating professional conduct that incidentally restricts speech is subject to heightened First Amendment scrutiny or permissibl… |
| 23A1139 |
360 Virtual Drone Services LLC, et al. v. Andrew L. Ritter, in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aerial-mapping communicative-content first-amendment licensing-board professional-regulation speech-restriction |
Whether a state licensing board can constitutionally prohibit a non-licensed individual from creating and distributing aerial photographic maps contai… |
| 23A1062 |
Coalition Life v. City of Carbondale, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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buffer-zone content-neutrality first-amendment intermediate-scrutiny public-forum speech-restriction |
Whether a municipal ordinance creating a fixed buffer zone around healthcare facilities that restricts close-proximity speech violates the First Amend… |
| 23-7497 |
In Re Olamide O. Bello |
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2024-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defamation due-process federal-release first-amendment free-speech government-liability retaliation speech-restriction |
Whether a company's comments with customers on and for redress of grievances are protected under the First Amendment and Article 16 of the Declaration… |
| 23-389 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech monell monell-liability rule-30b6-testimony speech-restriction standing viewpoint-based viewpoint-discrimination |
whether-the-test-for-content-neutrality-should-be-overruled |
| 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 |
Whether the Government's prohibition on disclosure of the receipt of national security process is unconstitutional in the absence of the procedural re… |
| 22-135 |
Heather Kokesch Del Castillo v. Joseph A. Ladapo, Secretary, Florida Department of Health |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech government-regulation occupational-licensing occupational-regulation professional-speech speech-restriction |
Whether a government prohibition on communicating a message is exempt from First Amendment scrutiny simply because that prohibition flows from a statu… |
| 21-1532 |
Brian Davison v. Deborah Rose, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny due-process first-amendment free-speech government-action government-speech public-forum speech-restriction standing viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a forum and scrutiny analysis are required when considering First Amendment infringement claims involving the government barring citizen speec… |
| 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 |
Whether a speaker must first engage in self-censorship to have standing to attack the constitutionality of a prior restraint on its speech |
| 21-1263 |
Marvin Gerber v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
anti-israel anti-jewish first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-of-religion harassment intimidation judicial-review religious-freedom speech-restriction |
Whether the First Amendment's guarantee of the free exercise of religion requires restriction adjacent to a house of worship of harassing and intimida… |
| 21-5952 |
Robert Paul Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube, and Aaron Eason v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
18-usc-2101 anti-riot-act brandenburg-v-ohio civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech interstate-commerce overt-act riot speech-restriction |
Whether the Anti-Riot Act is facially unconstitutional |
| 21-405 |
Emerald Home Care, Inc. v. Department of Unemployment Assistance |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech preemption speech-restriction supremacy-clause tax tax-law |
Whether assessing a tax but withholding notice of information fundamental and necessary for understanding the tax unless the taxpayer first executes a… |
| 19-1091 |
Steve Ray Evans v. Sandy City, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech government-burden government-regulation less-restrictive-alternatives public-forum roadway-medians speech-restriction traffic-safety |
Whether a government may ban expressive conduct without first trying to advance its interests using less speech-restrictive measures |
| 19-983 |
Colleen Reilly, et al. v. City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
article-iii-court constitutional-avoidance content-based content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech hill-v-colorado less-restrictive-alternatives reed-v-gilbert speech-restriction standing |
Whether Reed v. Town of Gilbert overruled Hill v. Colorado |
| 19-511 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (25)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the TCPA's prohibition on calls made using an ATDS is an unconstitutional restriction of speech, and if so whether the proper remedy is to bro… |
| 19-177 |
Agency for International Development, et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6) |
civil-rights federal-funding first-amendment foreign-policy free-speech funding-conditions hiv-aids overseas-affiliates prostitution speech-restriction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Amendment bars enforcement of Congress's directive that respondents 'have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex traffick… |
| 18-1516 |
Veronica Price, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-clinic buffer-zone civil-rights content-neutrality first-amendment free-speech narrow-tailoring precedent speech-restriction |
Whether the Court should reconsider Hill v. Colorado in light of Reed v. Town of Gilbert and McCullen v. Coakley |
| 18-1235 |
Joe Ribakoff v. City of Long Beach, California, et al. |
California |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
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1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights content-based-regulation content-based-speech expert-testimony first-amendment free-speech government-speech public-forum speech-restriction |
Is a rule abridging speech by members of the public at an open public meeting of a city government a presumptively unconstitutional content-based spee… |
| 18-1000 |
American Freedom Defense Initiative, et al. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech government-censorship government-speech public-forum speech-restriction transit-advertising transit-authority viewpoint-discrimination |
Is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising space a public forum for Petitioner's Support Free Speech' ads such that Responden… |