5th Circuit: Texas Drone Regulations Don’t Violate 1st Amendment

(January 30, 2024, 9:57 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — In a revised opinion issued after a grant of partial rehearing, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that a Texas law that places certain restrictions on the use of drones does not violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because the no-fly restrictions at issue have nothing to do with speech or expression and because the state has a significant interest in protecting its citizens’ privacy rights....