Case Categories: Content-based laws

• Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants (2020)

  The Supreme Court on July 6, 2020, struck down a provision in a robocall law that allowed government to use robocalls to collect debt, saying it was an...

• Boos v. Barry (1988)

  Boos v. Barry (1988) ruled that a D.C. law violated the First Amendment by banning the display of signs criticizing a foreign government outside that government...

• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

  In a landmark 2010 decision, a divided Supreme Court used the First Amendment to invalidate a campaign regulation that banned corporate and union spending in...

• City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994)

  City of Ladue v. Gilleo (1994) said a city could not stop homeowners from posting political signs. Banning these signs stopped First Amendment protected...

• Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972)

  Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley (1972) held that the government could not, under the First Amendment, selectively exclude speakers based on the content...

• Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015)

  Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015) invalidated a city ordinance that restricted the size of directional signs after a pastor challenged the law as violating the...

• Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995)

  Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995) ruled that the denial of student funds to a Christian-based magazine violated the First...

• Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989)

  Sable Communications of California v. Federal Communications Commission (1989) established the principle that indecent speech for adults is protected by the...

• Simon and Schuster v. Members of the New York State Crime Victims Board (1991)

  In Simon and Schuster v. New York State Crime Victims Board (1991), the Supreme Court said that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment...

• United States v. Alvarez (2012)

  In 2012, the Supreme Court overturned the Stolen Valor Act as an infringement on free speech after the law was used to prosecute a man who falsely claimed to...