TWITTER, INC. v. PAXTON

No. 21-15869.

26 F.4th 1119 (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.


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; Mark D. Flanagan , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, California; Patrick J. Carome , Ari Holtzblatt , Anuradha Sivaram , and Susan Pelletier , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael Kenneth Johnson , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Walnut Creek, California.

Lanora C. Pettit (argued), Principal Deputy Solicitor General; Benjamin D. Wilson , Deputy Solicitor General; Judd E. Stone II , Solicitor General; William T. Thompson , Deputy Chief, Special Litigation Unit; Patrick Sweeten , Chief, Special Litigation Unit; Brent Webster , First Assistant Attorney General; Ken Paxton , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Austin, Texas; for Defendant-Appellee.

Katie Townsend , Bruce D. Brown , Gabe Rottman , and Mailyn Fidler , Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Media Law Resource Center.

Caitlin Vogus , Samir Jain , and Emma Llansó , 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.

Before: Mark J. Bennett, Ryan D. Nelson, and Patrick J. Bumatay, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

After the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Twitter banned President Donald Trump for life. Soon after Twitter announced the ban, the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) served Twitter with a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) asking it to produce various documents relating to its content...

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