speech-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-891 Warren Balogh v. Chief Al Thomas, Jr., et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-02-19 Denied Response Waived civil-rights first-amendment government-violence monell-liability qualified-immunity speech-rights Whether the First Amendment protects speech amid violence left deliberately unchecked by local government
23-227 Sarah K. Molina, et al. v. Daniel Book, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-rights clothing-expression first-amendment free-speech particularized-message police-observation qualified-immunity speech-rights whether-words-on-clothing-are-protected-speech
23-220 Michael Parietti v. Ed Day, et al. New York 2023-09-08 Denied Relisted (2) bias-standard first-amendment free-speech judicial-disqualification probability-of-bias public-hearing public-hearings redistricting speech-rights Did the New York Courts use the wrong standard for judicial disqualification?
22-212 Jonathan Savas, et al. v. California Statewide Law Enforcement Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-09-08 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) associational-rights compelled-speech constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech janus-v-afscme labor-rights speech-rights union-membership waiver Does it violate the First Amendment for a state and union to compel objecting employees to remain union members and to subsidize the union and its spe…
21-951 Rio Grande Foundation v. City of Santa Fe, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied ballot-initiative chilling-effect civil-rights constitutional-challenge donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech nonprofit-disclosure speech-rights standing standing-doctrine Did the Tenth Circuit err?
21-571 Infowars, LLC, et al. v. Marcel Fontaine Texas 2021-10-20 Denied class-action defamation first-amendment free-speech media-organization public-concern rosenblatt-test speech-rights sullivan-test tort-actions Whether the First Amendment bars tort actions seeking damages for speech on matters of public concern directed at a loosely associated, large class of…
20-1334 Bradley Boardman, et al. v. Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) first-amendment harris-v-quinn information-access opt-out-rights public-records public-sector-unions speech-rights viewpoint-discrimination Whether a law that skews the debate over the value of public-sector unions and undermines public-sector employees' opt-out rights by giving incumbent …
20-5044 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena?
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…