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Tenth Circuit· 9/7/2017

Western Watersheds Project v. Michael

Citations

  • 869 F.3d 1189
  • 47 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20110
  • 2017 WL 3908875
  • 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 17279

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that statutes that prohibited crossing private property to collect “resource data” such as photographs, notes, and audio recordings if the individual also recorded the geographic coordinates where the data was gathered implicated First Amendment interests
  • suggesting Zemel 14 USCA4 Appeal: 20-1776 Doc: 83 Filed: 02/23/2023 Pg: 15 of 60 would have come out differently had the government “implement[ed] a law banning travel to Cuba for the purpose of writing about or filming what they observe.”
  • suggesting Zemel 14 USCA4 Appeal: 20-1777 Doc: 86 Filed: 02/23/2023 Pg: 15 of 60 would have come out differently had the government “implement[ed] a law banning travel to Cuba for the purpose of writing about or filming what they observe.”
  • suggesting Zemel 14 USCA4 Appeal: 20-1807 Doc: 79 Filed: 02/23/2023 Pg: 15 of 60 would have come out differently had the government “implement[ed] a law banning travel to Cuba for the purpose of writing about or filming what they observe.”
  • \The fact that one aspect of the challenged statutes concerns private property does not defeat the need for First Amendment scrutiny.\
  • “This is not to say that all regulations incidentally restricting access to information trigger First Amendment analysis.”

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Judges: Lucero, McKay, Hartz

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