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Government to Appeal Social Media Injunction Granted to Kennedy Plaintiffs

The 62 federal government defendants in the social media censorship case brought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two co-defendants are appealing to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a Feb. 14 memorandum ruling granting the Kennedy plaintiffs’…

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motion for a preliminary injunction (see 2402150001), said their notice of appeal Friday (docket 3:23-cv-00381). The injunction -- which U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe stayed until the 11th day after the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a decision in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) -- bars the defendants from coercing social media companies to moderate their content. The Kennedy plaintiffs modeled their case after Murthy.