O'HANDLEY v. WEBER

No. 22-15071.

62 F.4th 1145 (2023)

Rogan O'HANDLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Shirley WEBER; Twitter Inc., a Delaware corporation; National Association of Secretaries of State, a professional nonprofit organization, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 10, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karin M. Sweigart (argued) and Harmeet K. Dhillon , Dhillon Law Group Inc., San Francisco, California; Ronald D. Coleman , Dhillon Law Group Inc., Newark, New Jersey; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ari Holtzblatt (argued), Patrick J. Carome , and Susan M. Pelletier , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Emily Barnet and Rishita Apsani , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; Felicia H. Ellsworth , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; David C. Marcus , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Los Angeles, California; Thomas G. Sprankling , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, California; for Defendant-Appellee Twitter Inc.

Anna Ferrari (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Paul Stein , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Thomas S. Patterson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General of California; Office of the California Attorney General; San Francisco, California; Melissa Muller , Certified Law Student, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Andrew Albright , Certified Law Student, University of California Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, California; for Defendant-Appellee California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley N. Weber.

Christine M. Wheatley and Don Willenburg , Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP, Oakland, California, for Defendant-Appellee National Association of Secretaries of State.

David A. Greene and Mukund Rathi , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Before: Susan P. Graber, Evan J. Wallach, and Paul J. Watford, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Rogan O'Handley contends that the social media company Twitter Inc. and California's Secretary of State, Shirley Weber, violated his constitutional rights by acting in concert to censor his speech on Twitter's platform. He alleges that the Secretary of State's office entered into a collaborative relationship...

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