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Ninth Circuit: Elected Officials Violated the First Amendment by Blocking Constituents on Social Media–Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff

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.” The court holds: “the Trustees have acted under color of state law by using their social media pages as public fora in carrying out their official duties [and] the restrictions imposed on the Garniers’ expression are not appropriately tailored to serve a significant governmental interest and so are invalid.” Ziegenhorn.