· 7/31/2017
in Re Brothers Oil & Equipment, Inc. Winchester Oil & Gas, LLC And George Burke
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- explaining that when President Trump “used [his] Account as an official vehicle for governance and made its interactive features accessible to the public without limitation,” President Trump “created a public forum” (emphasis added)
- finding President Donald Trump's Twitter account to be a public forum, so that blocking users was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination
- distinguishing the interactive feature of a social media page as non- government speech and thus a public forum
- finding 28 President Donald Trump’s Twitter account to be a designated public forum and that 1 blocking users was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination
- affirming judgment in favor of plaintiffs who were blocked from the Facebook page of U.S. President; ultimately dismissed as moot after change in officeholder
- noting that “the speech in question is that of multiple individuals, not just . . . that of the government” and finding that although a government official’s posts can be government speech, speech by other users in response is not government speech
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