The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to re-evaluate the social media laws enacted by Texas and Florida. In a unanimous 9-0 decision, the court sent the cases back to the lower courts, citing insufficient information on how the laws would be applied to companies like Meta and Google's Alphabet. The Supreme Court's ruling keeps the district court injunctions against the laws intact, effectively blocking them while further proceedings take place. The laws in question, backed by Republican lawmakers, aim to regulate content moderation practices on social media platforms. The cases, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, will now return to the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits for further analysis. The Supreme Court noted that neither lower court conducted a proper analysis of the 1A challenges, according to CBS News.
The US Supreme Court sent a pair of cases related to state social media laws back to lower courts, arguing there is not enough information about how they will be applied to companies like Meta and Alphabet’s Google https://t.co/GPf9P5JRPY
NEW: Voting 9-0, the US Supreme Court sent a pair of cases related to state social media laws back to lower courts, arguing there is not enough information about how they will be applied to companies like Meta and Google. https://t.co/9AzOaYiqOj
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, says neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges (CBS News) https://t.co/LE5FBdOKyL 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/PC4NBPSk9k
SCOTUS orders lower courts to take another look at Texas' and Florida's social media laws, says neither lower court conducted proper analysis of 1A challenges (CBS News) https://t.co/OuLplnzZU8 https://t.co/PPUDBVHg9v
The Supreme Court keeps hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to regulate social media platforms https://t.co/u9e1bl6Qkq
#SCOTUS threw out a pair of judicial decisions involving challenges to Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable https://t.co/02TigOgTXO https://t.co/lhLolHM3OL
Supreme Court Throws Out ‘Social Media Censorship’ Cases In Florida And Texas https://t.co/SuM08FtHse https://t.co/QqkI5zMYG4
*SUPREME COURT SENDS SOCIAL MEDIA LAWS BACK TO LOWER COURTS
⚠️ U.S. SUPREME COURT THROWS OUT RULINGS INVOLVING CHALLENGES TO FLORIDA, TEXAS LAWS REGULATING SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES
BREAKING: A 9-0 Supreme Court punts on constitutionality of FL & TX laws barring social media platforms from removing content/users based on viewpoint, returning it to lower courts. (Moody v. NetChoice/NetChoice v. Paxton, No. 22-277/22-555) #SCOTUS https://t.co/FeUr6Mi1C6 https://t.co/sLeR8IMkea
Just to be clear, the ruling leaves the district court injunctions against *both* Florida's and Texas's social media content moderation laws *intact* (so the laws stay blocked), while sending the cases back to the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits for further proceedings. https://t.co/hluqwrNhKE
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court throws out rulings involving challenges to Florida, Texas laws regulating social media companies.