Jean v. Massachusetts State Police

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the First Amendment protected publication in an individual internet post in a case where the publisher \had reason to know that [the recording] had been illegally recorded\
• holding that the First Amendment protected an individual who posted a recording on the internet that was illegally recorded and who was in \active collaboration\ with the source in disclosing the unlawfully acquired information
• noting that Section 99\is a content-neutral law of general applicability\ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that likelihood of success on the merits is considered the “most important part of the preliminary injunction assessment”
• noting that Section 99 “is a content-neutral law of general applicability” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• reversing the district court’s dismissal without prejudice, reasoning that additional efforts and expenses in preparation for a new trial and discovery significantly prejudiced defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).