NetChoice, CCIA Press SCOTUS to Review Entire Fla., Texas Social Media Laws
Internet industry groups renewed their call for U.S. Supreme Court review of two state social media laws. In supplemental briefs Wednesday, NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) agreed with the U.S. solicitor general that SCOTUS should review…
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Texas (22-555) and Florida (22-393) cases but disagreed that the court shouldn’t review the state laws’ disclosure requirements. The court said Wednesday it distributed the cases for a Sept. 26 conference. “United States confirms that this case is exceptionally important and warrants the Court’s review,” the petitioners said in their Texas brief. They agreed with the solicitor general that SCOTUS should reverse the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the Texas law’s content-moderation restrictions. But the Supreme Court shouldn’t “artificially cabin its review” by skipping the disclosure requirements, they said. The U.S. can’t “deny that which First Amendment standard applies to governmental requirements to disclose editorial policies is increasingly recurring and important,” petitioners added. In the Florida case, NetChoice and CCIA said the U.S. “seeks to artificially limit” SCOTUS review to provisions invalidated by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, even though all the Florida law’s “provisions work hand-in-glove to punish a select handful of online services that the state indisputably disfavors.” Texas filed a supplemental brief Monday (see 2308290051).