Ex Parte Jordan Bartlett Jones
Media Coalition Foundation filed an amicus brief urging Texas’ highest court to strike down a state law that bars the distribution of certain images without the consent of the person in the image.
Category: 2018
Pennsylvania House Bill 2705
Pennsylvania state Rep. Christopher B. Quinn, R-Media, released a memorandum on September 25, 2018 stating his intent “to introduce legislation which would assess a 10% sales tax on video games that contains violent material.”
Nieves v. Bartlett
The Supreme Court held that to prevail on a retaliatory arrest claim, the plaintiff must show that the official acted with a retaliatory motive and the act was a “but-for” cause of the Constitutional injury.
Higginbotham v. City of New York
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed Higginbotham’s First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against police officers who arrested him when he was filming an Occupy Wall Street arrest.
Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held that under the circumstances of Lozman’s case, the existence of probable cause does not bar Lozman’s First Amendment retaliation claim.
New York Assembly Bill 8155b and Senate Bill 5857b
A.B. 8155b and S.B. 5857b would amend New York’s existing right of privacy law to create a new right of publicity for the life of a person plus 40 years after their death. It would bar the use of a person’s name, portrait or picture, voice or signature — i.e., their persona — without their consent in advertising or for the purposes of trade. The new right is a property right that can be transferred and is inheritable. Name is defined to include a person’s nickname.
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584 is an HTPA bill, which requires Internet Service Providers to provide filtering software that renders “sexual content and/or patently offensive material” inaccessible with any service or product it sells or leases.
Wyoming House Bill 127
Summary H.B. 127 is an HTPA bill. It bars any person from manufacturing, distributing or selling any device in Wyoming unless it has working filters to block access to websites that contain obscene material or that facilitate...
West Virginia Senate Bill 460
Summary S.B. 460 is an HTPA bill. It bars any retailer from selling or leasing any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless it has operating filtering software that blocks access to obscene material, revenge...
Tennessee Senate Bill 2280
Summary S.B. 2280 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
Tennessee House Bill 2685
Summary H.B. 2685 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
South Carolina House Bill 3003
Summary H.B. 3003 (HTPA) requires that all devices that allow access to the internet must come with an “active and operating digital blocking capability” that make obscene material “inaccessible.” The “digital blocking...
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2028
Summary S.B. 2028 is an HTPA bill, that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
New York Assembly Bill 9011
Summary A.B. 9011 is an HTPA bill. It bars the sale or distribution of any computer or mobile device without filtering software that blocks access to child pornography, any “hub that facilitates prostitution” or...
New Jersey Senate Bill 540
Summary S.B. 540 is an HTPA bill titled “Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act.” It makes it a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud act to manufacture, sell, lease or distribute any product that makes...
New Jersey Assembly Bill 878
Summary A.B. 878 is an HTPA bill titled “Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation Prevention Act.” It makes it a violation of New Jersey’s consumer fraud act to manufacture, sell, lease or distribute any product that makes...
New Mexico Senate Bill 89
Summary S.B. 89 is an HTPA bill. It bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
Missouri House Bill 2422
Summary H.B. 2422 is an HTPA bill. It bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
Mississippi Senate Bill 2315
Summary S.B. 2315 is an HTPA bill makes it unlawful to manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or distribution of any device that makes available content on the internet without installed and active filtering software to block...
Maryland Senate Bill 585
S.B. 585 is an HTPA bill that bars manufacturers, distributors and sellers of devices capable of accessing content on the internet from doing business in the state unless each device has an active and operating digital blocking capability that blocks access to obscene material and websites that facilitate human trafficking and prostitution.
Kansas Senate Bill 363
S.B. 363 is an HTPA bill that bars an internet service provider from selling or leasing to a consumer any product or service that makes content accessible on the internet, unless that product or service contains an active and operating technology that blocks access to “obscene content.”
Iowa House Study Bill 523
H.S.B. 523 is an HTPA bill that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating filtering software that blocks access to obscene for minors material, “revenge pornography” and any website that facilitates or promotes prostitution or human trafficking.
Illinois Senate Bill 2560
S.B. 2560 would require a person who has published a “criminal record,” online or anywhere else, to remove the information within 30 days upon written request by the person who is the subject of the “criminal record.”
Indiana Senate Bill 394
S.B. 394 is an HTPA bill that bars a person from manufacturing, distributing or selling an internet-enabled device unless it contains active digital blocking software.
Hawaii Senate Bill 2838
S.B. 2838 is an HTPA bill that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device “contains” filtering software that blocks “pornographic” material, and the software must block “obscene” material if the manufacture, sale or distribution is to a minor.
