Split 5th Circuit Affirms One Injunction, Vacates Another In Social Media Law Row

( July 28, 2026, 3:51 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — In two cases consolidated on appeal, a split Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a ruling issuing a preliminary injunction in a suit involving an internet trade association and vacated and remanded an injunction in another suit involving a student organization in challenges to a Texas law requiring digital service providers to monitor content accessible to minors, finding that the “monitoring and filtering requirement challenged” by the trade association is preempted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) but that the student organization and related parties lacked standing....