11th Circuit Agrees to Expedite Case on Florida's Social Media Kids Ban
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Computer and Communications Industry Association's (CCIA) request to expedite a case challenging a Florida law banning young kids from social media. The ruling Thursday also granted the attorney general's request to withdraw its pending motion to expedite oral argument.
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Judge Barabara Lagoa's two-page decision directed the clerk to "place this case on the next available oral argument calendar with a vacancy."
The 11th Circuit lifted a preliminary injunction earlier in December against HB-3 (see 2511260042), which prohibits kids 13 and younger from creating social media accounts and requires 14- and 15-year-olds to obtain parental consent to create them. CCIA then asked the appeals court to expedite the remainder of the case (see 2512030047), as the law became enforceable with the lift of the injunction.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R), however, argued there's no need to expedite case 25-11881, as the 11th Circuit lift of the preliminary injunction returned everything to the status quo (see 2512080024).