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National Retail Federation v. James

February 18, 2026

Whether a law requiring businesses to inform consumers when the business is using surveillance pricing violates businesses' First Amendment rights.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Surveillance Pricing
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
Massachusetts v. Meta

November 17, 2025

EPIC filed an amicus brief before Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court arguing that Section 230 and the First Amendment do not block Massachusetts' claims against Meta for designing its products to be addictive to kids.
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
Atlas Data Privacy Corp., et al. v. We Inform LLC, et al.

May 20, 2025

Whether privacy laws violate the First Amendment?
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Privacy Laws
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
Kohls v. Bonta

April 23, 2025

Whether a law prohibiting the posting of misleading, AI-generated deepfakes impersonating candidates, elected officials, elections workers, and voting machines in the period directly before and after an election violates the First Amendment.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
NetChoice v. Bonta (CA Addictive Feeds Law)

January 6, 2025

Is it a company’s protected expression under the First Amendment to present a user with whatever content the company’s algorithm thinks will maximize the amount of time the user spends on the company’s website?
- Age Assurance
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton

September 23, 2024

Whether a court should apply rational basis review or, instead, strict scrutiny in a facial challenge to a law that requires pornography websites to verify the age of users in order to block kids from accessing pornography.
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
X v. Bonta

March 28, 2024

In a First Amendment challenge to a law that requires social media platforms to disclose information about their existing content moderation practices, what level of scrutiny applies? And can the law be struck down in its entirety based on a tenuous and hypothetical assertion that public or government pressure will lead to companies changing their content moderation practices?
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
NetChoice v. Paxton / Moody v. NetChoice

December 8, 2023

(1) Whether the First Amendment protects every choice a social media company makes as to what user-generated content it hosts and how it arranges that content.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
NetChoice v. Bonta (CAADC)

May 22, 2023

Whether the First Amendment prohibits a law that requires businesses to offer privacy protections to children.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs

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