Judge Recuses Herself From NetChoice’s Challenge of Utah’s Social Media Law

U.S. District Judge Ann Marie McIff Allen for Utah in Salt Lake City recused herself from the case in which NetChoice is seeking to defeat Utah’s newly enacted Minor Protection in Social Media Act, said the judge’s signed recusal order Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00911). The case was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, said a text-only docket notice Tuesday. NetChoice seeks a preliminary injunction blocking Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) and Katherine Hass, director of Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection, from enforcing the statute when it takes effect Oct. 1 (see 2405060006). NetChoice calls the statute “an unconstitutional restriction on minors’ and adults’ ability to access and engage in protected speech.”