TWITTER, INC. v. PAXTON

No. 21-15869.

56 F.4th 1170 (2022)

TWITTER, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ken PAXTON, in his official capacity as Attorney General of Texas, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 2, 2022.

Amended December 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter G. Neiman (argued), Alex W. Miller , and Rishita Apsani , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Patrick J. Carome , Ari Holtzblatt , Anuradha Sivaram , and Susan Pelletier , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mark D. Flanagan , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Palo Alto, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lanora C. Pettit (argued), Principal Deputy Solicitor General; Ryan D. Walters , Attorney; Benjamin D. Wilson , Deputy Solicitor General; Judd E. Stone II , Solicitor General; William T. Thompson , Special Litigation Unit Deputy Chief; Patrick Sweeten , Special Litigation Unit Chief; Brent Webster , First Assistant Attorney General; Ken Paxton , Attorney General of Texas; Office of the Texas Attorney General, Austin, Texas; Michael K. Johnson , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Walnut Creek, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

KatieLynn B. Townsend , Bruce D. Brown , Gabe Rottman , Grayson Clary , Gillian Vernick , and Mailyn Fidler , Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Media Law Resource Center Inc.

Caitlin Vogus , Samir Jain , and Emma Llanso , Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Media Coalition Foundation, Inc, National Coalition Against Censorship, Pen America, and R Street Institute.

Ilana H. Eisenstein , Whitney Cloud , and Ben C. Fabens-Lassen , DLA Piper LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Peter Karanjia , DLA Piper LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Amici Curiae NetChoice LLC, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Chamber of Progress, and TechNet.

Opinion by Judge R. Nelson.


ORDER

The opinion filed March 2, 2022, and appearing at 26 F.4th 1119, is amended by the opinion filed concurrently with this order.

The full court has been advised of the petition for rehearing en banc, filed March 30, 2022, and no judge requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter en banc. Fed. R. App. P. 35. With these amendments, the panel unanimously votes to DENY the petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc.

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