Supreme Court sets rules on when public officials can block social media users
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The Supreme Court on Friday laid out a new test for determining when actions taken by government employees on social media.
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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against local government officials in Michigan and California who blocked
A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that public officials who post about topics relating to their work on their personal social media accounts are acting on behalf of the government, and therefore can be held liable for violating the First Amendment when they block their critics, only when they have t
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court, addressing free speech rights in the digital age, decided on Friday that government officials can sometimes be sued under the Constitution
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that public officials may be sued for blocking critics on social media, extending a precedent set during the Trump presidency.
If a public employee has the “actual authority to speak on the state’s behalf” and “purported to exercise that authority” on social media, then the official can be liable for blocking or deleting critical commentators, the opinion said.
(CNN) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against local government officials in Michigan
