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Eighth Circuit: Fun With the First Amendment

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed a judgment that the city of St. Louis violated the First Amendment because its now-former President of the Board of Aldermen, Lewis Reed, blocked on his Twitter account someone who posted a hostile tweet.        

8th Circuit Rules Parents Lack Standing to Enjoin Enforcement of Law Prohibiting Masks in Schools

“Even if Plaintiffs could show injury in fact, they cannot carry their burden to establish traceability. Article III requires a showing of ‘a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of—the injury has to be fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant, and not the result of the independent action of […]