NetChoice hailed Monday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley for Southern Ohio in Columbus granting NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction that on constitutional grounds blocks Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) from enforcing the state’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act. The judge previously granted NetChoice a temporary restraining order against the statute a week before it was to take effect Jan. 15 (see 2401090062).
Amazon last month “changed the deal” on its Prime Video offering, charging consumers an additional $2.99 a month for ad-free streaming, alleged plaintiff Wilbert Napoleon's fraud class action Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00186) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle.
The “extensive federal censorship campaign” outlined in the “thorough opinions” of the district court and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals undermines “deliberative democracy,” said 16 Republican state attorneys general in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Friday (docket 23-411) in Murthy v. Missouri in support of the injunction to bar Biden administration officials from coercing social media platforms to moderate their content.
Wielding “threats of intervention,” the executive branch “has engaged in a sustained effort to coerce private parties into censoring speech on matters of public concern,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and 44 other House and Senate Republicans in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Friday in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) in support of the social media injunction that would bar federal government coercion.
T-Mobile and Roswell, Georgia, exchanged dueling briefs Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta in advance of the court’s March 4-6 evidentiary hearing into the 14-year-long cell tower fight between the carrier and the municipality.
When federal officials “wield the power of government” to impose an “approved viewpoint” and censor private speech, the First Amendment “must apply the brakes,” said the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411). The brief is in support of the injunction to bar federal agencies from coercing social media platforms to moderate their content.
The challenged FCC declaratory ruling authorizing E-rate funding for Wi-Fi on school buses “defies unambiguous statutory limits on the FCC’s authority,” said Maurine and Matthew Molak's opposition Friday (docket 23-60641) to the FCC’s Feb. 6 motion to dismiss their petition for review in which the Molaks ask the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate that ruling (see 2402070002).
California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, AB-2273, “is one of the most expansive efforts to censor online speech since the inception of the internet,” said NetChoice’s response brief Wednesday (docket 23-2969) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in the appeal of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) to reverse the preliminary injunction that blocks him from enforcing the statute (see 2312140003).
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act “protects Americans’ right to privacy,” and the district court’s Nov. 6 opinion dismissing plaintiff Jacob Howard’s complaint against the Republican National Committee (see 2311150003), “must be reversed, so that it continues” to protect that right, said Howard’s opening brief Wednesday (docket 23-3826) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The district court “properly denied” appellant Ganiyu Jaiyeola’s emergency ex parte application for a temporary restraining order to halt Black Friday advertising of the iPhone 15 Pro on his allegations that the device is falsely advertised as a titanium phone when it’s mostly fashioned from aluminum (see 2401080002), said Apple’s answering brief Monday (docket 23-4027) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in Jaiyeola’s appeal.