Backpage.com, LLC v. Thomas Dart

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• holding that the First Amend- ment barred a sheriff from “using the power of his office to threaten legal sanctions against . . . credit-card companies for facilitating future speech”
• holding that the First Amend- ment barred a sheriff from “using the power of his office to threaten legal sanctions against . . . credit-card companies for facilitating future speech”
• considering the same factors as part of a totality-of-the-cir- cumstances analysis
• considering the same factors as part of a totality-of-the-cir- cumstances analysis
• county sheriff demanding that credit card companies “immediately cease and desist” from allowing their cards to be used to purchase advertisements on an adult website
• “[C]redit card companies don’t like being threatened by a law-enforcement official that he will sic the feds on them, even if the threat may be empty.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).