Group To 9th Circuit: Social Media 1st Amendment Ruling Is ‘Nearly Dispositive’

Mealey's (February 23, 2024, 2:35 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — More than 21 months since the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a nonprofit organization’s appeal of the dismissal of its free speech suppression claims against Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.), the appellant on Feb. 22 filed notice of a Louisiana federal court’s recent finding that it was likely to succeed on almost identical claims in a parallel suit claiming that the social media operator colluded with the federal government in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....