The Kennedy plaintiffs in the First Amendment lawsuit that was consolidated with Missouri v. Biden in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe seek to intervene as respondents in the government’s U.S. Supreme Court challenge of the social media injunction against the White House and four federal agencies, said their motion Thursday (docket 23-411). The government's petition was granted cert review Oct. 20. The plaintiffs are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Children’s Health Defense nonprofit and Louisiana resident Connie Sampognaro, described in the motion as “an avid consumer of online health information.”

The U.S. Supreme Court late Friday afternoon granted the government’s application for a full stay of the injunction that bars officials from the White House, the surgeon general’s office, the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency from coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies to moderate their content.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended by a week, to Oct. 20 at 5 p.m. EDT, the administrative stay of the injunction that bars dozens of Biden administration officials from coercing or significantly encouraging the social media platforms to moderate their content, said Alito’s text-only order Friday afternoon (docket 23A243).

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the cert petition Friday (docket 22-1219) of three fishing companies, Relentless, Huntress and Seafreeze Fleet, that seek to overturn the Chevron doctrine because the Commerce Department is requiring them to pay the costs of carrying federal inspectors onboard their vessels.

DOD is using Ligado spectrum for previously undisclosed systems and without compensating the company, and red flags Defense raised about possible GPS interference from Ligado spectrum use were a pretext to cover that up, the satellite operator said in a U.S. Court of Federal Claims complaint it filed Thursday night.

The government returned to the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday with a renewed plea for the court to grant its emergency application for a full stay of the injunction barring officials from the White House, the surgeon general’s office, the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- and now extended to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency -- from coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies to moderate their content.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted the cert petitions of NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association challenging the constitutionality of the Florida (docket 22-227) and Texas (docket 22-555) social media laws on First Amendment grounds, said the court’s order list Friday. NetChoice and CCIA argue that the Florida and Texas statutes are unconstitutional under the First Amendment, plus they violate the commerce clause, the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment, and are preempted by Section 230.

The FCC has 90 days to either complete the 2018 quadrennial review or show cause why the NAB’s petition for mandamus shouldn’t be granted, said an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Thursday evening. The order doesn’t grant NAB’s petition for mandamus but defers it until the 90-day period. Broadcast industry officials told us the court’s urging the agency to soon complete the 2018 QR is the result they wanted. The FCC didn’t immediately comment, but the agency had argued that its delay in completing the QR was justified.

U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman for Northern California in San Jose granted NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) from enforcing the state’s Age Appropriate Design Code (AB-2273), finding that California hasn't shown that the challenged statute "passes constitutional muster," said her signed order Monday (docket 5:22-cv-08861).

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the preliminary injunction that bars Biden administration officials from coercing social media companies to moderate their content, pending the disposition of the government’s SCOTUS cert petition, said her application Thursday afternoon (docket 23A243). The government plans to file its cert petition by Oct. 12, said the application.