The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in two cases involving government officials who blocked individuals from their social media accounts.

One of the cases, Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff, 41 F.4th 1158 (9th Cir. 2022), cert. granted, O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier, No. 22-324 (Apr. 24, 2023), was decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Here, the Ninth Circuit ruled that government officials violated the First Amendment by creating publicly accessible social media pages related to their official duties and then blocking certain members of the public from those pages because of the nature of their comments.

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