Cornelius, Acting Director, Office of Personnel Management v. NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., et al.

The Court ruled that the First Amendment requires strict scrutiny of state laws restricting what therapists may say to clients, reversing the lower courts' rulings upholding Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors and remanding the case.· AI-written

The Court vacated the lower-court decisions in challenges to Florida and Texas laws limiting online content moderation, because the courts had not fully assessed the laws under the First Amendment, and remanded the cases for further consideration.· AI-written

The court held that plaintiffs alleging retaliatory arrest need only provide evidence that their arrest occurred in circumstances where probable cause exists to arrest, but officers typically exercise discretion and decline to arrest.

The court decided that the provision does not violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

The Court unanimously ruled that if a former New York financial regulator attempted to coerce financial institutions to refrain from doing business with the NRA, that conduct would violate the First Amendment.· AI-written

By a 7–2 majority, the court decided that statements are not protected if the defendant recklessly disregarded a substantial risk that their statements would be viewed as threatening.

In a unanimous 9–0 decision, the Court ruled that the city violated a Christian group's free speech rights when it denied their request to raise a Christian flag over City Hall.

The Court unanimously held that a local government board member's First Amendment freedom of speech was not abridged when his colleagues verbally censured him.· AI-written

The Court ruled that California's requirement that non-profits disclose their donors' identities to the Attorney General before soliciting donations burdened donors' First Amendment rights, was not narrowly tailored, and was invalid.· AI-written

The Court ruled for a student who was suspended from cheerleading over an off-campus profane Snapchat post, holding that the school's interest in preventing disruption under Tinker did not overcome her First Amendment rights.· AI-written

The Supreme Court, in a complex plurality decision, ruled on July 6, 2020, that the 2015 amendment to the TCPA did unconstitutionally favor debt collection speech over political speech and violated the First Amendment.

The Court held that the Lanham Act provisions barring registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" trademarks were unconstitutional because they let the Patent & Trademark Office engage in viewpoint discrimination, violating the First Amendment's Free Speech Clause.· AI-written

The Court held that a public access station was not considered a state actor for purposes of evaluating free speech issues in a 5–4 ruling split along ideological lines.

The Supreme Court of the United States decided that probable cause should generally defeat a retaliatory arrest claim brought under the First Amendment, unless officers under the circumstances would typically exercise their discretion not to make an arrest.

The United States Supreme Court decided that the mere existence of probable cause for an arrest did not bar the plaintiff's First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim, but deferred consideration of the broader question of when it might.

The Court ruled that a century-old Minnesota law barring voters from wearing political clothing or items at polling places was overbroad, violated free speech rights under the First Amendment, and was therefore unconstitutional.· AI-written

The Supreme Court of the United States held that a North Carolina statute that prohibited registered sex offenders from using social media websites was unconstitutional because it violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects freedom of speech.

The Court unanimously affirmed the Federal Circuit's judgment that the Lanham Act provisions barring registration of trademarks that may "disparage" persons, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols violated the First Amendment.· AI-written

In a case about a police detective disciplined for apparently supporting a mayoral challenger, the Court held that a public employee's constitutional rights might be violated when an employer disciplines them over a mistaken belief that they engaged in protected speech.· AI-written

The Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.

The Court held that a town's sign ordinance, which put stricter limits on signs advertising religious services than on political or ideological signs, imposed content-based restrictions that did not survive strict scrutiny.· AI-written

In a case about a public employee fired after giving sworn testimony in a federal fraud case, the Court sided with the employee, but could not award damages because qualified immunity protected the official from personal-capacity suit.· AI-written

The Court ruled that conditions imposed on recipients of certain federal grants restricted freedom of speech and violated the First Amendment.· AI-written

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was unconstitutional.

The Court struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of certain violent video games to children without parental supervision.

The Court held that public employees may not sue their employers for retaliation under the First Amendment's Petition Clause when they petition on matters of private concern, because the public concern test limits such claims.· AI-written

The court held that the Nevada Ethics in Government Law, which required government officials recuse in cases involving a conflict of interest, is not unconstitutionally overbroad.

The Court ruled that 18 U.S.C. § 48, a federal statute criminalizing the commercial production, sale, or possession of depictions of cruelty to animals, was an unconstitutional abridgment of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.

The Court ruled on the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on a government establishment of religion specifically with respect to monuments (e.g., statues) on public land.

The court held that a state ban on political payroll deductions for contributions by public employees to their union's political action committee does not infringe the unions' First Amendment rights.

The Court rejected a constitutional challenge to New York's judicial election law, which was alleged to unfairly block candidates' ballot access, and held that it did not infringe candidates' First Amendment associational rights.· AI-written

The Court held that a statewide association's rule prohibiting high-school football coaches from contacting middle-school prospects did not violate the First Amendment.· AI-written

The Court ruled, in a 5–4 decision, that because his statements were made pursuant to his position as a public employee, rather than as a private citizen, his speech had no First Amendment protection.

The Court ruled that a plaintiff claiming a prosecution was brought in retaliation for First Amendment speech against postal policy must allege and prove that the criminal charges were brought without probable cause.· AI-written

The Court ruled that the federal government, under the Solomon Amendment, could constitutionally withhold funding from universities if they refuse to give military recruiters access to school resources.

In a 5–4 decision, the court ruled that Minnesota's announce clause, which forbade candidates for judicial office from announcing their views on disputed legal and political issues, was unconstitutional.

The Court rejected a First Amendment right of incarcerated people to provide legal assistance to other incarcerated people.· AI-written

The Court ruled that congressional restrictions barring Legal Services Corporation attorneys from representing clients seeking to challenge existing welfare law violated the First Amendment's free speech guarantees.· AI-written

The Court struck down Section 505 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which required that cable television operators completely scramble or block channels that are "primarily dedicated to sexually-oriented programming" or limit their transmission to the hours of 10 pm to 6 am.

The Court held that public universities may subsidize campus groups by means of a mandatory student activity fee without violating the students' First Amendment rights.

The Court ruled that the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, as amended in 1990, (20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1)), was facially valid, as it neither inherently interfered with First Amendment rights nor violated constitutional vagueness principles.

The court held that state-owned public television networks are not required to invite minor-party candidates with few supporters to major-party debates because the networks are not public forums.

In a dispute over FCC must-carry rules for cable television operators, the Court held in the first ruling that cable companies were First Amendment speakers, and in the second held the rules were not restrictions of their free speech rights.· AI-written

In a challenge to provisions of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, the Court held that sections 10(b) and 10(c) violated the First Amendment, while upholding section 10(a) as consistent with it.· AI-written

The Supreme Court of the United States held that an Ohio statute prohibiting anonymous campaign literature is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the freedom of speech.

The Court held that Amtrak is a government agency and is thus subject to the First Amendment.

In a dispute over FCC must-carry rules for cable television operators, the Court held in the first ruling that cable companies were First Amendment speakers, and in the second held the rules were not restrictions of their free speech rights.· AI-written

The Court held that a public hospital did not need to determine what a nurse actually said in criticizing a supervisor's staffing practices, if it reasonably believed what she said and reasonably believed it could be disruptive, and it vacated the appeals court ruling.· AI-written

The United States Supreme Court held that enhanced penalties for hate crimes do not violate criminal defendants' First Amendment rights.

The Court held that a Tennessee law that restricted political campaigning within 100 feet (30 m) of a polling place did not violate the First Amendment.

The Court ruled that a person's rights of association and due process, as granted under the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, cannot be infringed upon if such an association has no bearing on the case at hand.

The court struck down the Son of Sam law in New York on the ground that the law was violative of the First Amendment, which protects free speech.

The court held that a "substantial likelihood of material prejudice" test for a restriction of lawyer speech about an ongoing proceeding satisfies the First Amendment, but the test must not be void for vagueness.

The Court held that the First Amendment freedom of the press did not exempt journalists from generally applicable laws, in a case where newspapers published a source's name despite promising not to.· AI-written

The Court held that the First Amendment forbids a government entity from basing its decision to promote, transfer, recall, or hire low-level public employees based upon their party affiliation.

The Court held that neither common law evidentiary privilege, nor First Amendment academic freedom protects peer review materials that are relevant to charges of racial or sexual discrimination in tenure decisions.

The Court found that the city had a substantial interest in limiting excessive noise and the regulation was "content neutral".

The Court upheld an ordinance imposing age limits on teen dance halls, ruling that gathering for recreational dancing is not an "expressive association" under the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the ordinance by the town of Brookfield, Wisconsin, preventing protest outside of a residential home.

The Court ruled that a government employee's extremely critical remark about the President, made on a matter of public interest by someone with no policymaking role and little public interaction, was protected by the First Amendment, though direct threats would not be.· AI-written

The United States Supreme Court held that an ordinance prohibiting all "First Amendment activities" in the Los Angeles International Airport was facially unconstitutional due to its overbreadth.

The court held that a regulation preventing inmates from marrying without permission violated their constitutional right to marry because it was not logically related to a legitimate penological concern, but a prohibition on inmate-to-inmate correspondence was justified by prison security needs.

The Court held that the closure was aimed at non-expressive activity and its incidental burden on speech was not subject to any First Amendment scrutiny.

The Court upheld the suspension of a high school student who delivered a sexually suggestive speech at a school assembly.

The Court affirmed the Ninth Circuit and remanded, in a First Amendment dispute over restrictions on cable franchising, holding that the disputed factual issues needed fuller development before the legal issues could be decided.· AI-written

In a case about associative freedom and a Minnesota antidiscrimination law, the Court held that the Minneapolis branch of the United States Jaycees could not bar women from becoming voting members.· AI-written

The Court ruled in a challenge by non-member faculty to exclusive "meet and confer" committees in public college policymaking that the Minnesota labor law's provisions did not violate the Constitution.· AI-written

The United States Supreme Court upheld lobbying restrictions imposed on tax-exempt non-profit corporations.

The Court reversed the lower courts' decision that had favored an assistant district attorney who was fired after circulating a questionnaire about management practices to her fellow prosecutors.· AI-written

The court held that the exclusion of the press and public from a trial is prohibited by the First Amendment unless the exclusion is motivated by a compelling state interest.

The justices unanimously upheld an ordinance passed by a Chicago suburb that imposed licensing requirements on the sale of drug paraphernalia by a local record store.

The Court upheld the constitutionality of a statute that prohibited depositing unstamped "mailable matter" in a mailbox approved by the United States Postal Service.· AI-written

After a murder case ended in three mistrials and the judge closed the fourth trial to the public and press, the Court ruled the closure violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, which implicitly guarantee the press access to public trials.· AI-written

The Court held that public defenders cannot be fired solely based on their political affiliation.

The Court held that a state statute requiring each major political party to have a State Committee of two persons from each county did not violate party members' First and Fourteenth Amendment freedom of association regarding purely internal party decisions.· AI-written

The Court refused to recognize a "right of access", under the First Amendment, to interview particular prisoners.

Was argued on January 11, 1978 and decided on May 1, 1978.

In a suit by a fired teacher against his school district, the Court held that the district was primarily a local entity beyond the Eleventh Amendment's reach, and remanded the case for the district court to examine whether he would have been fired anyway.· AI-written

The Court held that prior restraints on media coverage during criminal trials are presumptively unconstitutional.

The court upheld the decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of the respondent.

The Court upheld military regulations strictly forbidding partisan political activity on unrestricted areas of a military base, Fort Dix, against a First Amendment challenge.· AI-written

The United States Supreme Court upheld a city's ban on political advertising within its public transportation system.

The Supreme Court overturned a Florida state law that required newspapers to offer equal space to political candidates who wished to respond to election-related editorials or endorsements.

The court held that when other channels for communication exist, restricting physical access of the media to incarcerated people is not unconstitutional.

The court held that it is unconstitutional to prohibit incarcerated people from corresponding with law students and paralegals regarding prison conditions and potential attorney–client relationships.

The Court prohibited state employees from engaging in partisan political activities.

The Court held that the Hatch Act of 1939 does not violate the First Amendment, and its implementing regulations are not unconstitutionally vague and overbroad.

The Court rejected the use of the First Amendment as a defense for reporters summoned to testify before a grand jury, so the reporters lost.· AI-written

In a case about the protections of the Speech or Debate Clause, the Court held that the clause's privileges and immunities for members of Congress also extend to Congressional aides, but not to activity outside the legislative process.· AI-written

The Court held that Central Connecticut State College's refusal to recognize a campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society was unconstitutional.

The United States Supreme Court dismissed for lack of standing a claim in which the plaintiff accused the U.S. Army of alleged unlawful "surveillance of lawful citizen's political activity."

The Court ruled that the First Amendment protected the right of The New York Times to print the classified Pentagon Papers, despite the executive branch's claimed need for secrecy and the President's effort to stop publication.· AI-written

The Court held that the government cannot punish inflammatory speech unless it is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and likely to produce it, and struck down Ohio's criminal syndicalism statute for broadly prohibiting mere advocacy of violence.· AI-written

The Court held that radio broadcasters had First Amendment free speech rights that the FCC could partially restrict to serve the public interest in equitable use of scarce frequencies, so the Fairness Doctrine was constitutional.· AI-written

The Court held that a business in a privately owned shopping center cannot prevent labor picketing nearby with trespass laws.

The Court unanimously affirmed the First Amendment rights of state legislators and held that state legislators cannot lawfully limit a fellow legislator's right to express their views on local or national policy.

The ruling of the Supreme Court struck down § 305(a) of the Postal Service and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1962, a federal statute requiring the Postmaster General to detain and deliver only upon the addressee's request unsealed foreign mailings of "communist political propaganda."

In a case over government-operated film rating boards, the Court ruled that a board could only approve a film, not ban it, and had to approve a film within a reasonable time or go to court to stop its showing in theatres.· AI-written

The Court held that a legislative committee cannot compel a subpoenaed witness to give up the membership lists of his organization.

The Court held that a federal district court's reservation of jurisdiction did not bar its review of a state court ruling, and it overturned Virginia's 1956 laws targeting the NAACP's litigation as violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments.· AI-written

The Supreme Court of the United States held that strongly-worded criticism of an ongoing grand jury investigation does not constitute a clear and present danger.

In two cases involving limits on freedom of expression for motion pictures, the Court affirmed the right of local governments to engage in some form of censorship.· AI-written

By a 5–4 vote, the Court struck down an Arkansas law imposing disclosure requirements on public schoolteachers, reasoning that they were unconstitutionally overbroad.

The Court voided a Los Angeles ordinance that forbade distributing any handbills lacking the name and address of the person who prepared, distributed, or sponsored them, in a case over anonymous boycott handbills.· AI-written

The Court held that the First Amendment forbade state governments from compelling disclosure of an organization's membership lists through a tax-exemption regulatory scheme.· AI-written

The Court held that New York Education Law provisions letting a censor forbid commercial showing of films deemed "sacrilegious" were a restraint on freedom of speech and violated the First Amendment, overturning its earlier Mutual Film decision.· AI-written

The Court held that a Chicago "breach of peace" ordinance banning speech that stirred the public to anger, invited dispute, brought about unrest, or created a disturbance was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.· AI-written

The Court held that an ordinance banning sound amplification devices without the Chief of Police's permission was facially unconstitutional because it was a prior restraint on free speech in violation of the First Amendment.· AI-written

The Court ruled that a New York Penal Law section banning publication of periodicals dealing in criminal deeds was applied so vaguely that it violated the First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth.· AI-written

The Court held that the Hatch Act of 1939 did not violate the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.