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Supreme Court’s January Docket Includes Key Free Speech Case

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Paxton , involves the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires any website that publishes content one-third or more of which is harmful to minors to verify the age of every user before permitting access. Issues Before the Supreme Court The Supreme Court granted certiorari on July 2, 2024. The case, Free Speech Coalition v.

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SCOTUS Remands Content Moderation Cases But Still Delivers First Amendment Lessons

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Paxton , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Facts of the Case In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted statutes regulating large social-media companies and other internet platforms. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reached the opposite conclusion, reversing the preliminary injunction of the Texas law. In Moody v.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Standard for Retaliatory Arrest Claims

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2024), the U.S. Facts of the Case In 2019, Sylvia Gonzalez ran for a seat on the city council of Castle Hills, a small town in southern Texas. The post SCOTUS Clarifies Standard for Retaliatory Arrest Claims appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. In Gonzalez v. Trevino , 602 U.S. In Nieves v.

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Supreme Court Upholds Homeless Ordinance Imposing Criminal Penalties

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Johnson , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. According to the Court, the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property does not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Texas , 392 U.S. In City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. It also cited Powell v.

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SCOTUS Ends February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Six Cases

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A pair of cases challenging Texas and Florida’s controversial social media laws took center stage. However, a divided panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that NetChoice was unlikely to succeed in any of its challenges to the Texas law, H.B. NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. Please check back for updates.

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First Amendment Issues Dominant Busy Week at the Supreme Court

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In challenging the law, TikTok and its users argue that the PAFACAA violates the First Amendment and constitutes an unlawful bill of attainder under Article I. During oral arguments held on January 10, 2024, the justices seemed inclined to uphold the PAFACAA. Paxton : The First Amendment case challenges Texas H.B.

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SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

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Natural Resources Defense Council , or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.” Texas : The Fifth Amendment government taking case involves when property owners can sue for compensation.

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