Victory in Virginia!!

[denise]

On Friday, the judge hearing our VA case issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing Virginia's SB 854 against any Netchoice member (which means us!) while the lawsuit proceeds. Judge Giles's ruling is a little technical in places and covers a number of legal issues that I keep meaning to get around to explaining someday so folks can have a better grasp on the kind of things they'll see argued in cases like these, like strict scrutiny and associational standing, but the end result is still pretty clear, I think: the judge agrees Netchoice has made a strong enough showing right from the start that the law is unconstitutional to block the state from doing anything to enforce it until the full case can be heard.

This is only the beginning of that particular fight and we still have a ways to go, but it's great news for us, for all our users from Virginia, and for the internet as a whole. Three cheers for the Netchoice team and the outside litigation counsel, who are Clement & Murphy for this one! The full docket in RECAP: NetChoice v. Jason S. Miyares, 1:25-cv-02067, (E.D. Va.).

Comments

[sario528]

Woo!

[quietmoment]

Nice! Thank you for the update!

[magid]

Huzzah! A step in the right direction!

[yuuago]

That's great! Congrats! Thanks for letting us know about it, it's nice to have some good news.

[princessofgeeks]

AWESOME

[whispersilk]

That's great news! Thank you for sharing!

[soc_puppet]

Hooray! Thank you Paul and Netchoice in general, thank you Virginia judge, and thank you Dreamwidth!

[paultaske]

Thanks for all your support!

--Paul from NetChoice

[soc_puppet]

It's Paul! Thank you so much for all of your hard work, and please send our support to everyone else at NetChoice!

[ilyena_sylph]

Hi Paul!!!

Welcome, wonderful to have you here!

[the_shoshanna]

Yay Paul, yay Netchoice, yay synecdochic, yay all around!

[sario528]

Yay Paul! You rock!

[silveradept]

Hi, Paul! We're glad you're here, and thank you and Netchoice for helping to bring complaints that preserve our privacy against overbroad and often-pretextual attempts to curtail speech online.

[sporky_rat]

Hi Paul! Welcome to Dreamwidth! I in particular appreciate y'all's efforts since I'm in Mississippi!

Y'all're the best!

[sathari]

That's great news!

[teres]

Congratulations on this!

[silveradept]

Hooray for a preliminary injunction!

And hooray to the counsel team continuing to make sure that the appropriate scrutiny standards are applied to cases that are very clearly about restricting speech.

[profiterole_reads]

Congrats!