Washington – The Computer & Communication Industry Association has joined an amicus brief along with TechNet and SIIA supporting NetChoice’s standing to challenge the Arkansas Social Media Safety Act as a violation of the First Amendment. The brief to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in NetChoice v. Griffin explains that denying NetChoice’s standing to challenge the Act “would improperly curtail long-recognized avenues for constitutional review.”
The brief further notes that “The State’s threshold standing arguments rest on a repeatedly rejected and unsupported theory that would radically narrow access to judicial review in First Amendment cases.”
The following can be attributed to Stephanie Joyce, Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, who is the Director of CCIA’s Litigation Center:
“Trade associations have standing to seek judicial review of questionable restrictions on expressive speech. Ignoring longstanding precedent on associations’ standing would largely insulate unconstitutional laws from review. We will fight to maintain our right to sue and to prevent this knee-capping of the First Amendment.”
