In a past Trending Law Blog post on November 1, 2023, we discussed how the Supreme Court of the United States granted petitions for certiorari in Florida’s NetChoice LLC v. Moody case and Texas’ NetChoice LLC v. Paxton...more
8/6/2024
/ Case Consolidation ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
First Amendment ,
Moody v NetChoice LLC ,
NetChoice LLC v Paxton ,
Online Platforms ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
SCOTUS ,
Social Media ,
Social Networks ,
Split of Authority
On March 15, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in Lindke v. Freed and Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff, two cases which involved when public officials can block social media followers and delete their...more
Courts may only hear and decide cases when they have been granted authority over particular matters and when they have personal jurisdiction over the parties to the matter. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that courts may...more
On June 27, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Counterman v. Colorado, holding, among other things, that the First Amendment required the criminal conviction of a man found guilty of stalking a woman through...more
On December 8, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Antonyuk v. Chiumento, a case which challenged many provisions of New York’s law regulating the public carrying of firearms, the...more
In past Trending Law Blog posts on August 13, 2021, November 17, 2021, December 16, 2021, and September 8, 2022, we discussed the two NetChoice cases that arose in Florida (NetChoice, LLC v. Moody) and Texas...more
Just twelve days after Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curiam decision in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, in which the Court declined to address the application of §230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47...more
6/16/2023
/ Communications Decency Act ,
Criminal Liability ,
FOSTA ,
Google ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Reddit ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 230 ,
Sex Trafficking ,
Social Media ,
User-Generated Content ,
Websites
The September 1, 2020 Trending Law Blog post discussed how the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., 964 F.3d 170 (2020), upheld a public school student’s First...more
The June 14, 2018 post “The President May Not Block Twitter Followers Because They Disagree With Him Politically” reported how the District Court in Knight First Amendment Inst. at Columbia University v. Trump, 302 F.Supp.3d...more
5/11/2021
/ Blocking Power ,
Donald Trump ,
First Amendment ,
Free Speech ,
Mootness ,
Public Forum ,
Public Officials ,
SCOTUS ,
Social Media ,
Twitter ,
Vacated ,
Viewpoint Discrimination