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303 Creative, Inc. v. Elenis
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303 Creative, Inc. v. Elenis
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Status: Ongoing
This case concerns whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel a business that chooses to serve the public to provide wedding website design services without discriminating against a same-sex couple violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.
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Free Speech
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Status: Ongoing
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Idaho
Free Speech
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On August 8, 2023, the ACLU, the ACLU of Idaho, Professor Seth Kreimer, and law firm Strindberg Scholnick Birch Hallam Harstad Thorne, filed a lawsuit on behalf of two teachers’ unions and six professors in the U.S. District Court of Idaho to challenge Idaho’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act. The statute criminalizes the use of any public funds to “promote abortion” or “counsel in favor of abortion.” On behalf of our Plaintiffs, we argue that the law violates the First Amendment by restricting the academic speech of faculty at Idaho’s public universities, and is unconstitutionally vague under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This case is about whether a city government’s selective and discriminatory refusal to permit a family-friendly drag event in a public park violated the event organizers’ First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection, and related provisions contained in the Utah Constitution.
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Status: Ongoing
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