Exhibit 067

Murthy v. Missouri, 144 S. Ct. 1972 (2024)

Exhibit 067 · Court opinion

Murthy v. Missouri, 144 S. Ct. 1972 (2024)

Because no plaintiff has carried that burden, none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction.

By 6–3, the Court reversed the Fifth Circuit's injunction against federal communications with social media platforms because no plaintiff had standing. It did not decide the First Amendment merits. The Fifth Circuit had found that the White House, the Surgeon General's office, the CDC and the FBI likely coerced or significantly encouraged the platforms' moderation decisions.

Source: Supreme Court of the United States
Date: 26 June 2024
Quoted from: Murthy v. Missouri, 603 U.S. ___ (2024), No. 23-411, slip op., Syllabus p. 1 (June 26, 2024)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Biden, No. 23-30445.

Cited by

Finding MED-2.9: Primary record Event 201, a pandemic exercise co-hosted by the Gates Foundation in October 2019, recommended that governments partner with media companies so that "false messages are suppressed including though the use of technology."
Finding INF-4.1: Primary record FBI, DHS and ODNI officials met regularly with platform staff about election content from 2017 and 2018, under the Trump administration, and the meetings continued through the 2022 midterms under the Biden administration.
Finding INF-4.3: Primary record CISA's head of its misinformation team testified that CISA forwarded election officials' reports about posts to platforms in the 2020 election, and the record differs on whether it did so in 2022. The district court wrote in 2023 that no evidence produced in the case tied the Trump administration to the switchboarding, and a 2025 Senate Commerce majority report dates DHS's election-disinformation task force to March 2018.
Finding POL-7.12: Primary record The Fifth Circuit on 3 October 2023 agreed with the district court "but only as to some of those officials" and removed NIAID and the State Department from the injunction. On 26 June 2024 the Supreme Court held 6-3 in Murthy v. Missouri that "no plaintiff has carried that burden" and so "none has standing to seek a preliminary injunction."