Cases
Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al. (f/k/a Murthy, et al. v. Missouri, et al.)
CASE: Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al. (f/k/a Murthy, et al. v. Missouri, et al.)
STATUS: Active
NCLA ROLE: Counsel
COURTS HEARD IN: SCOTUS, 5th Cir., W.D. LA
ORIGINAL COURT: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
DECIDING COURT: U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
OPENED: August 2, 2022
AGENCIES: Centers for Disease Control | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency | Department of Health and Human Services | Federal Bureau of Investigation | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | National Institutes for Health | President of the United States
FOCUS AREAS:
CASE SUMMARY
Public statements, emails, and publicly released documents establish that the President of the United States and other senior officials in the Biden Administration have violated the First Amendment by directing social-media companies to censor viewpoints that conflicted with the government’s messaging on Covid-19.
NCLA joined the lawsuit, State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., et al., representing renowned epidemiologists and co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, as well as Dr. Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines. Social media platforms, acting at the federal government’s behest, repeatedly censored NCLA’s clients for articulating views on those platforms in opposition to government-approved views on Covid-19 issues. This insidious censorship was the direct result of the federal government’s campaign to silence those who voice perspectives that deviate from those of the Biden Administration. Government officials’ public threats to punish social media companies that did not do their bidding demonstrate this linkage, as do emails from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to social media companies.
This sort of censorship, which strikes at the heart of what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect—free speech, especially political speech—has constituted unlawful government action. Moreover, this state action has deprived Americans of their right to hear the views of those who are being silenced, a First Amendment corollary of the right to free speech.
OUR CLIENT
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, Drs. Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
OUR TEAM
RELEVANT MATERIALS
NCLA FILINGS
Plaintiffs' Reply to Defendants' Response to Proposed Jurisdictional Discovery Plan
December 23, 2024 | Read More
Memorandum Order
November 8, 2024 | Read More
Plaintiffs' Reply Memorandum in Support of Further Discovery and in Opposition to Dismissal of the Complain
October 29, 2024 | Read More
Missouri v. Biden Brief Supporting Discovery and Opposing Dismissal
September 17, 2024 | Read More
Opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court
June 26, 2024 | Read More
PRESS RELEASES
NCLA Wins Further Discovery in Historic Suit Against Government’s Censorship Industrial Complex
November 8, 2024 | Read More
NCLA Demands Further Discovery in Historic Suit Against Government’s Censorship Industrial Complex
September 18, 2024 | Read More
Supreme Court Issues Troubling Decision in NCLA Case Against Censorship Industrial Complex
June 26, 2024 | Read More
Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument in Pivotal NCLA Case Against Gov’t Social Media Censorship
March 18, 2024 | Read More
Amici Support NCLA’s Stance at Supreme Court in Major Social Media Censorship Injunction Case
February 12, 2024 | Read More
IN THE MEDIA
Schrödinger’s Cat, Jurisdiction, and Missouri v. Biden
NCLA Blog
November 12, 2024
The ‘Tell’ in Zuckerberg’s Letter to Congress
August 27, 2024
No Remedy for Censorship: The Perils of Murthy
July 2, 2024
Supreme Court must rely on the First Amendment, not its own precedent, when deciding government censorship case
March 27, 2024
SCOTUS Must Protect The 1st Amendment. The Biden Admin Certainly Won’t
March 18, 2024
CASE HIGHLIGHTS
Media Mention
May 5, 2023
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
Source: The New York Times
Press Release
July 5, 2023
Victory! Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Cannot Censor Americans on Social Media