O'connor-ratcliff v. Garnier (601 U.S. 205)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 15, 2024 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 601 U.S. 205 · 144 S. Ct. 717
- Decided
- March 15, 2024
- Term
- October Term 2023
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- First Amendment
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 601 U. S. ____ (2024) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 22–324 _________________ MICHELLE O’CONNOR-RATCLIFF, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. CHRISTOPHER GARNIER, ET UX. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT [March 15, 2024] PER CURIAM. In 2014, Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T. J. Zane cre- ated public Facebook pages to promote their campaigns for election to the Poway Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Trustees. While O’Connor-Ratcliff and Zane (whom we will call the Trustees) both had personal Facebook pages that they shared with friends and family, they used their public pages for campaigning and issues related to PUSD. After they won election, the Trustees continued to use their public pages to post PUSD-related content, including board-meeting recaps, application solicitations for board positions, local budget plans and surveys, and public safety updates. They also used their pages to solicit feedback and communicate with constituents. Their Facebook pages de- scribed them as “Government…
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