Review of Amicus Briefs Filed in Murthy v. Missouri Before the Supreme Court | TechPolicy.Press – Tech Policy Press

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On May 5, 2022, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) in the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, accusing the Biden administration, federal agencies, and top health officials of colluding with social media companies. The suit alleges government officials engaged in a coordinated campaign throughout the COVID pandemic to remove disfavored content and suppress the expression of disfavored views in violation of protected speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

The case primarily concerns jawboning, or informal government efforts to pressure private social media companies into limiting or removing speech on their platforms. After a winding series of appeals and preliminary injunctions in the Fifth Circuit, the US Supreme Court agreed to take up the case, now Murthy v. Missouri, in its 2023-24 term. The record is marred by questions over the characterization and veracity of the underlying evidence.

The three questions before the Court are the following:

Briefs were submitted to the Court by the US Solicitor General (on behalf of the Petitioner, Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy), the respective States, and other parties either in favor of Murthy or the states or neither party. To help Tech Policy Press readers better understand what arguments are being made by the amici, we put together short summaries. These summaries are intended to offer the broad contours of each brief, and thus do not always contain every argument contained within them. If the reader wants a complete version of any one brief, the link to the document is provided in the text.

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