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ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND v. REYNOLDS

No. 19-1364.

8 F.4th 781 (2021)

ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND; Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement; Bailing Out Benji; People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc.; Center for Food Safety, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Kimberly REYNOLDS; Tom Miller, Attorney General of Iowa; Drew B. Swanson, Montgomery County Attorney, Defendants-Appellants. Brooke Kroeger; Ted Conover; Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Scholars of First Amendment and Information Law; Iowa Freedom of Information Council; United Farm Workers of America; Erwin Chemerinsky; 23 Media Organizations and Associations, Amici on Behalf of Appellee(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 10, 2021.

Amended: August 13, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rita N. Bettis Austen , ACLU of Iowa Foundation, Des Moines, IA, Leslie A. Brueckner , Public Justice, Oakland, CA, Alan K. Chen , Justin F. Marceau , University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, Kelsey Rinehart Eberly , Cristina Rachel Stella , Animal Legal Defense Fund, Cotati, CA, George Andreas Kimbrell , Center for Food Safety, Portland, CA, David Samuel Muraskin , Public Justice, Washington, DC, Matthew Strugar , Law Office of Matthew Strugar, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Jacob John Larson , Assistant Attorney General, Iowa Department of Justice, Des Moines, IA, Jeffrey S. Thompson , Attorney General's Office, Des Moines, IA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Shayana Kadidal , Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, for Amici on Behalf of Appellees Brooke Kroeger and Ted Conover.

Jay Madison Smith , Smith & McElwain, Sioux City, IA, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees Iowa Federation of Labor, AFLCIO.

Jonathan Manes , University at Buffalo, School of Law, Buffalo, NY, Francesca Lina Procaccini , David A. Schulz , Charles S. Sims , Yale Law School, Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic, New Haven, CT, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees Scholars of First Amendment and Information Law.

Gary Dean Dickey, Jr. , Dickey & Campbell, Des Moines, IA, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

Mario G. Martinez , Martinez & Aguilasocho, Bakersfield, CA, Vanessa Tamara Shakib , Advancing Law for Animals, Redondo Beach, CA, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees United Farm Workers of America.

Elena D. Harvey , Foley & Mansfield, Minneapolis, MN, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees Erwin Chemerinsky.

Lisa Beth Zycherman , Davis & Wright, Washington, DC, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellees 23 Media Organizations and Associations.

Before COLLOTON, GRUENDER, and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.

In this appeal, we consider whether an Iowa statute prohibiting accessing agricultural production facilities by false pretenses and making false statements as part of an employment application to an agricultural production facility violates the First Amendment. The district court ruled that both provisions are unconstitutional...

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