La. Judge Grants Motion to Stay Deadline in AGs' Case Vs. Biden Administration
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty granted defendants’ motion to stay (docket 3:23-cv-00381) the deadline until Friday to respond to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. et al.’s largely identical complaint against President Joe Biden and nearly 70 federal defendants pending resolution of…
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the motion for preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden (docket 3:22-cv-01213). The Monday filing in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe also ordered the parties to file a joint status report in response to the complaint within 14 days of the court’s resolution of the plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary injunction in that First Amendment case brought by the Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general. Doughty’s April 21 order gave defendants until June 20 to respond to the preliminary injunction motion filed by plaintiffs, the order said. Kennedy and the Children’s Health Defense's (CHD) moved to consolidate their March 24 class action against Biden et al. with Missouri v. Biden, saying the defendants and facts are “substantially identical” (see 2304050007). Kennedy called the case a “First Amendment challenge to the massive, systematic efforts by the federal government to induce social media companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.” The “only difference” between the two cases, said CHD, is that the Kennedy case seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, not damages, said its March memorandum in support of consolidation. Doughty deferred a ruling on the motion to consolidate until a resolution is rendered on the pending motion for preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden.