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NetChoice Succeeds in Striking Down Utah Social Media Law Under First Amendment

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A federal court last week sustained a First Amendment challenge to a Utah law aimed at addressing the use of social media platforms by minors, holding that the law’s proponents failed to demonstrate that the law served a...more

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Defamation and Reputation Management in the Digital Age

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Defamation is the act of communicating false statements about a person that injures their reputation. Legal protections for a person’s reputation go back to common law and were well developed over the past two centuries....more

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The NetChoice Social Media Cases: Back to the Beginning

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​​​​​​​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

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Supreme Court’s Social Media Ruling Tilts Toward Free Speech

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The US Supreme Court this month declined to rule on whether Florida and Texas laws limiting social media platforms’ content moderation violates the First Amendment, sending the issue back to the lower courts. But in doing so,...more

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Online Speech Showdown: Six Takeaways from Moody v. NetChoice

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently released its decision in Moody v. NetChoice, providing some much-needed guidance to lower courts on the application of the First Amendment to laws regulating content moderation practices of...more

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SCOTUS Remands Social Media Content Moderation Cases and Signals Content Moderation as a First Amendment-Protected Activity

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The First Amendment still imposes some limits on the government’s ability to control what content appears online. On July 1, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton,...more

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What's Next After Major First Amendment Win For Online Companies In Supreme Court's NetChoice Decision?

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On July 1, the Supreme Court issued one of its most significant decisions regarding First Amendment rights on the internet in the NetChoice cases. At issue were a pair of facial First Amendment challenges to Texas and Florida...more

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Supreme Court Decides Moody et. al., v. NetChoice, LLC, and NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton

On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Moody et. al., v. NetChoice, LLC, and NetChoice, LLC, v. Paxton, in which the Eleventh Circuit and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals had reached opposite decisions about a state’s...more

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Top First Amendment Cases of the 2023-2024 Supreme Court Term

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The U.S. Supreme Court stepped back from the brink in a term that could have reshaped First Amendment law for the internet age. ...more

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Supreme Court Issues Warning for Public Officials Using Social Media

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“Public service is a noble calling” that requires great sacrifice, often requiring public officials to surrender personal conveniences in favor of public business. An off-duty police officer jumps into action when there is...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees Grants Certiorari in the Two NetChoice Cases

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​​​​​​​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

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Disclosure, Complaints and Process: Texas H.B. 20 and Similar Bills Contain Provisions That Go Beyond Content Regulation

In what is either one of the more ironic acts in a year full of irony or one of the more expressive power moves of the Texas legislative session, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on one social media platform that people can watch a...more

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Do Virtual Sticks and Stones Also Break Bones? Addressing Cyberbullying Under Title IX

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Cyberbullying is nothing new. A majority of teens have experienced the phenomenon and college campuses certainly are not immune. Just because something is common does not make it simple to deal with, however. And this is...more

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Digital Crisis PR: Removal of Unlawful Content from Digital Platforms

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Whether you are an individual, a start-up, or a multi-million dollar corporation, there is an art to removal-or “takedowns”- of unlawful content or negative reviews that have been posted about you or your business online. In...more

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California Enacts Nation’s First Anti-Bot Law

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On September 28, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law S.B. 1001, which makes it illegal “for any person to use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in California online, with the intent to mislead...more

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Key SCOTUS Decisions in Tech – First Half 2017

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Despite being short one justice for much of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down multiple significant decisions this past term that can unsettle long-standing legal understandings in multiple technology fields. These...more

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