NetChoice Injunction Motion Due Feb. 17 vs. Calif. Social Media Law

Plaintiff NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction is due Feb. 17 in its lawsuit seeking to invalidate California’s age-appropriate social media design law (see 2212140063), said a text-only entry Sunday (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. California’s response to the motion is due April 21, and NetChoice’s reply brief is due May 19, said the entry. NetChoice alleges AB-2273 violates the First Amendment by telling sites how to “manage constitutionally protected speech.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) defends the law as working to address “some of the real and demonstrated harms associated with social media and other online products and services.”