Eleventh Circuit Court's official ruling

Supreme Court Orders Re-evaluation of Texas, Florida Social Media Laws in 9-0 Decision

Jul 1, 2024, 02:35 PM

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.