Amicus Briefs Archive — Woodhull Freedom Foundation

Brief of Amici Curiae Chamber of Progress, Consumer Technology Association, First Amendment Coalition, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, IP Justice, LGBT Tech, The Trevor Project, and Woodhull Freedom Foundation in support of Plaintiff-Appellee Netchoice, LLC

February 19, 2024
Mandy Salley

Woodhull Freedom Foundation joined the Chamber of Progress and six other organizations in an Amicus Brief challenging California’s Age-Appropriate Design-Code Act (CAADCA), which was initially passed in September 2022. The stated goal of the law is to protect minors' online…

Brief Of Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, Authors Alliance, Fight For The Future, And First Amendment Coalition In Support Of Petitioners in Moody v. NetChoice

December 11, 2023
Mandy Salley

Woodhull Freedom Foundation joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and four other organizations to urge the Supreme Court to strike down laws in Florida and Texas that let the states dictate certain speech social media sites must carry, violating the sites’ First Amendment…

Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University & Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Support of Petitioner in Lindke v. Freed

June 30, 2023
Mandy Salley

The following originally appeared on Electronic Frontier Foundation's website: "Woodhull Freedom Foundation, EFF, and Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University asked the court in a brief filed on June 30th to protect the First Amendment rights of people to access…

Brief of Amici Curiae Technology Law and Policy Clinic at New York University School of Law & Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Support of Petitioners in Barton v. Texas

February 28, 2023
Mandy Salley

The First Amendment protects speech that may be unpleasant, including speech we detest. This Court has long recognized that such speech can be vital for our marketplace of ideas often precisely because it is communicated with an intent and in…

Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Immigrants Rising, Defending Rights & Dissent and Woodhull Freedom Foundation in Support of Respondent in United States v. Hansen

February 27, 2023
Mandy Salley

Should it be a federal crime to encourage an undocumented immigrant to remain in the country? In a friend of the court brief filed on February 24, 2023, with the U.S. Supreme Court, we joined Electronic Frontier Foundation, Immigrants Rising, and…

Technology Law and Policy Clinic at New York University School of Law & Woodhull Freedom Foundation Amici Curiae in Barton & Sanders v. State of Texas

December 13, 2022
Mandy Salley

The First Amendment protects speech that may be unpleasant, including speech we detest. This Court has long recognized that such speech can be vital for our marketplace of ideas often precisely because it is communicated with an intent and in…

FIRE and the Woodhull Freedom Foundation File Amicus Brief to Prevent Book Banning in Virginia

July 26, 2022
Mandy Salley

Written by Will Creeley from FIRE. Book bans seek to enlist the power of the state to dictate what each of us and our families may or may not read — and thus are sharply at odds with the First…

NetChoice v. Texas

May 18, 2022
Chad Cipiti

Woodhull, joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), the R Street Institute, and the Wikimedia Foundation, filed an Amicus Brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to halt…

Thomas E. Dobbs, M.D., M.P.H., in his Official Capacity as State Health Officer of Mississippi Department of Health, et al., Petitioners v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, et al.

December 13, 2021
Mandy Salley

Introduction and Summary of Argument People rely on this Court’s decisions. They rely on the stability of the law, as this Court rarely retrenches on past precedent regarding fundamental rights and equality. Respondents ably demonstrate that bedrock principles of stare…

David Benoit Mech v. School Board of Palm Beach County, Florida

December 13, 2021
Mandy Salley

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly expanded the “government speech” exception to the First Amendment to include circumstances where the government was not itself a “speaker” and had clearly discriminated against private speech on the basis of content. SUMMARY…