5th Circuit Blocks Texas Law Requiring Websites to Filter "Harmful" Speech

5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find.

§ 230 Preempts Texas Mandates on Social Media Platforms, Fifth Circuit Holds by 2-1 Vote

An excerpt from the long opinion in Computer & Comm. Industry Ass'n v. Paxton, decided Friday by Fifth Circuit Judges...

Fifth Circuit Blocks Key Part of Texas Social Media Law Aimed at Protecting Minors

A federal appeals court ruled 2–1 on July 24 that federal law overrides a key part of a Texas social media law that requires platforms to monitor and filter material deemed harmful to minors. A provision in the state law required digital service providers to come up with a strategy to prevent minors from being exposed to what it describes as “harmful material” and other content “that promotes, glorifies, or facilitates” “suicide, self-harm, or e…

Fifth Circuit rules illegal immigrants have no constitutional right to remain free during deportation proceedings

The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that illegal immigrants held by ICE have no constitutional right to walk free while the government works to remove them, a decision the Justice Department calls an “extraordinary precedential order” that will shape detention cases nationwide. The appeals court overturned a lower court that had granted...

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Reaffirms Bar on Restrictive Texas Internet Law, HB18

Washington – The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a preliminary injunction that blocked Texas from enforcing its social media law HB18, known as the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act. CCIA and its co-plaintiff NetChoice obtained that injunction based on longstanding legal principles that the Texas law violates the First Amendment by restricting, and in many cases banning, access to protected online speech. The …