Principal Law:

First Amendment

24 Cases found

CANA Foundation v. U.S. Department of Interior

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: D. Nev.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 09/02/2022 ]
Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management decision to remove wild horses and burros from Herd Management Areas in Nevada.

HOPE of Kentucky, LLC v. Cameron

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Ky.
Status: Memorandum filed by plaintiffs in support of their motion to abstain, dismiss, and remand. [ 11/18/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to block the Kentucky Attorney General's investigation of banks' ESG investment practices.

Durand v. Echols

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: N.D. Ga.
Status: Complaint filed. [ 11/15/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit alleging that a Georgia Public Service Commissioner violated an individual's free speech rights by blocking her criticism of the Commissioner's positions on energy issues on Twitter and Facebook.

Better Path Coalition Planning Group v. City of Harrisburg

Filing Date: 2022
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. Pa.
Status: Litigation to remain stayed pending further order of court. [ 12/01/2022 ]
Description: First Amendment challenge by climate activists to City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's system for regulating use of its traditional public forums for expressive purposes.

Clark v. Haaland

Filing Date: 2021
Court/Admin Entity: D.N.M.
Status: Motions to dismiss granted. [ 09/28/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking seeking declarations regarding the application of federal law to certain reclamation and irrigation projects.

City of Helena v. McKinlay

Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: Mont. Mun. Ct.
Status: Order issued denying defenses of necessity/compulsion and free speech and granting plaintiff's motion in limine. [ 04/05/2013 ]
Description: Prosecution of citations of 23 citations for criminal trespass with protests at Montana State Capitol.

Roemer v. Williams

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: 2d Cir.
Status: Dismissal affirmed. [ 11/02/2020 ]
Description: Lawsuit seeking to compel a community college president to require distribution of plaintiff's position paper referring to political movements to reduce fossil fuel use as "malicious hoax."

Spoon v. Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: M.D. La.
Status: Motion for summary judgment filed by HUB Enterprises, Inc. [ 07/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit by pipeline protesters against pipeline company, law enforcement officers, and a private security company for violation of federal and state rights.

Landman v. Scott

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Joint motion for order of dismissal with prejudice filed. [ 08/30/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit filed by a Colorado resident against a state senator who blocked her on social media after she criticized his climate change views.

Jensen v. Town of Fraser

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation for dismissal filed by the parties. [ 11/20/2019 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging a Colorado town's sign code as an unconstitutional content-based restriction on free speech.

White Hat v. Landry

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. La.
Status: Memorandum of law filed by plaintiffs in support of summary judgment motion. [ 04/25/2022 ]
Description: Lawsuit challenging 2018 amendments to a Louisiana law that prohibits unauthorized entry of critical infrastructure by expanding the definition of critical infrastructure to include 125,000 miles of pipelines.

Dakota Rural Action v. Noem

Filing Date: 2019
Court/Admin Entity: D.S.D.
Status: Action dismissed with prejudice pursuant to stipulated settlement agreement. [ 10/29/2019 ]
Description: Challenge by environmental and indigenous groups and activists to South Dakota's "Riot Boosting Act."

iMatter Utah v. Njord

Filing Date: 2011
Court/Admin Entity: 10th Cir.
Status: Opinion issued affirming district court's ruling that insurance and indemnification requirements violated the First Amendment. [ 12/22/2014 ]
Description: Challenge by environmental groups wishing to organize marches to raise climate change awareness to constitutionality of Utah regulations requiring them to obtain insurance and sign an indemnification form.

Animal Legal Defense Fund v. United States

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: 9th Cir.
Status: Reply brief filed by plaintiffs-appellants. [ 10/19/2021 ]
Description: Claims against the federal government alleging violations of a constitutional right to wilderness and seeking order requiring the government to prepare and implement a remedial plan to mitigate climate change impacts.

Willmeng v. City of Thornton

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: D. Colo.
Status: Stipulation filed. [ 10/20/2018 ]
Description: First Amendment lawsuit brought by two Colorado residents against Colorado city and its mayor pro tem for blocking their comments about hydraulic fracturing.

In re Exxon Mobil Corp.

Filing Date: 2018
Court/Admin Entity: Tex.
Status: Petition for review denied. [ 02/18/2022 ]
Description: Exxon Mobil Corporation petition seeking pre-suit depositions and documents in anticipation of potential claims of abuse of process, conspiracy, infringement of Exxon's rights in connection with California municipalities' climate change lawsuits.

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) v. Macomb Community College

Filing Date: 2017
Court/Admin Entity: E.D. Mich.
Status: Order of dismissal entered. [ 11/13/2017 ]
Description: Lawsuit brought by students against community college alleging that the college violated the students' free speech and equal protection rights by barring them from engaging in expressive activity to promote fossil fuels without prior approval.

Stein v. Kyocera Mita America, Inc.

Filing Date: 2012
Court/Admin Entity: Cal. Super. Ct.
Status: Order and ruling issued. [ 04/26/2012 ]
Description: Action by actor Ben Stein alleging that a Japanese company unlawfully fired him for his views about climate change.

Seeds of Peace Collective v. City of Pittsburgh

Filing Date: 2009
Court/Admin Entity: W.D. Pa.
Status: Stipulation of dismissal filed after parties agreed to settlement. [ 10/12/2012 ]
Description: Action alleging that city interfered with right to assemble during coal conference.