KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INST. COLUMBIA v. TRUMP

No. 18-1691-cv August Term 2018.

928 F.3d 226 (2019)

KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Rebecca Buckwalter, Philip Cohen, Holly Figueroa, Eugene Gu, Brandon Neely, Joseph Papp, and Nicholas Pappas, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Donald J. TRUMP, President of the United States and Daniel Scavino, White House Director of Social Media and Assistant to the President, Defendants-Appellants, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 9, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jameel Jaffer , ( Katherine Fallow , Caroline DeCell , Alexander Abdo , Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, Jessica Ring Amunson , Tali R. Leinwand , Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., on the brief), Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jennifer Utrecht , Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division ( Scott McIntosh , Attorney, Appellate Staff, on the brief), for Chad A. Readler , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants.

David Greene , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae, Electronic Frontier Foundation, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Amy L. Marshak , Joshua A. Geltzer , Mary B. McCord , Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae, Ashutosh Bhagwat , Erwin Chemerinsky , Genevieve Lakier , Lyrissa Lidsky , Helen Norton , Amanda Shanor , Geoffrey R. Stone , Laurence H. Tribe , and Rebecca Tushnet , in support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Dan Backer , Political.Law PLLC, Alexandria, VA, for amicus curiae, Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, in support of Defendants-Appellants.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Chad I. Golder , Rachel G. Miller-Ziegler , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Internet Association, in support of neither party.

Before: PARKER, HALL, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


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