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Murthy, et al. v. Missouri, et al. (f/k/a Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al.)
CASE: Murthy, et al. v. Missouri, et al. (f/k/a Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al.)
STATUS: Active
NCLA ROLE: Counsel
COURTS HEARD IN: SCOTUS, W.D. LA, 5th Cir.
ORIGINAL COURT: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
DECIDING COURT: U.S. Supreme Court
OPENED: August 2, 2022
AGENCIES: Centers for Disease Control | Department of Commerce | Department of Health and Human Services | Department of Justice | Department of Treasury | Food and Drug Administration | Missouri | President of the United States
FOCUS AREAS:
CASE SUMMARY
Public statements, emails, and publicly released documents establish that the President of the United States and other senior officials in the Biden Administration have violated the First Amendment by directing social-media companies to censor viewpoints that conflicted with the government’s messaging on Covid-19.
NCLA joined the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., representing renowned epidemiologists and co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, as well as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines. Social media platforms, acting at the federal government’s behest, repeatedly censored NCLA’s clients for articulating views on those platforms in opposition to government-approved views on Covid-19 issues. This insidious censorship was the direct result of the federal government’s campaign to silence those who voice perspectives that deviate from those of the Biden Administration. Government officials’ public threats to punish social media companies that did not do their bidding demonstrate this linkage, as do emails from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to social media companies.
This sort of censorship, which strikes at the heart of what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect—free speech, especially political speech—has constituted unlawful government action. Moreover, this state action has deprived Americans of their right to hear the views of those who are being silenced, a First Amendment corollary of the right to free speech.
OUR CLIENT
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
OUR TEAM
RELEVANT MATERIALS
NCLA FILINGS
Opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court
June 26, 2024 | Read More
Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for Leave to Serve Third Party Subpoenas Prior to a Rule 26(f) Conference
June 21, 2024 | Read More
Notice of Request to Preserve All Documents and Electronically Stored Information as Defined by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34
June 3, 2024 | Read More
Reply Brief for the Petitioners
March 4, 2024 | Read More
Brief of Amicus Populi and Freedom X as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents
February 9, 2024 | Read More
PRESS RELEASES
Supreme Court Issues Troubling Decision in NCLA Case Against Censorship Industrial Complex
June 26, 2024 | Read More
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Pivotal NCLA Case Against Gov’t Social Media Censorship
March 18, 2024 | Read More
Amici Support NCLA’s Stance at Supreme Court in Major Social Media Censorship Injunction Case
February 12, 2024 | Read More
NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Injunction Against Government Social Media Censorship
February 6, 2024 | Read More
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Landmark NCLA Case Against Government Social Media Censorship
October 20, 2023 | Read More
IN THE MEDIA
Supreme Court must rely on the First Amendment, not its own precedent, when deciding government censorship case
March 27, 2024
SCOTUS Must Protect The 1st Amendment. The Biden Admin Certainly Won’t
March 18, 2024
How to Defeat the Administrative State
February 22, 2024
Controlling the Language: How Government Puppeteers the Minds of Millions
NCLA Blog
February 9, 2024
Examining The CDC’s COVID Response Actions: “Coercion. Deception. Censorship.”
September 27, 2023
CASE HIGHLIGHTS
Media Mention
May 5, 2023
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
Source: The New York Times
Press Release
July 5, 2023
Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media