Stays
July 19, 2023Missouri v. Biden, No. 23-30445, presents a high-profile dispute about coordination betwen the federal government and social media platforms to address misinformation. A district court in Louisiana issued an injunction against such coordination and the federal government appealed. That appeal, as do many significant constitutional disputes, implicated the division of responsibility between an initial “administrative stay,” a later “stay pending appeal,” and the resolution of the merits of the appeal. For this case, a Fifth Circuit panel resolved that matter with this order:
