11th Circuit: 1st Amendment Facial Challenge Fails In Minors’ Social Media Law Row

( October 16, 2026, 1:18 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 15 vacated a lower court’s preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of a Georgia statute designed to regulate minors’ access to social media and remanded, finding that while internet trade association NetChoice had associational standing to challenge the law’s validity on its members’ behalf, it did not “carry the burden it bears in connection with its facial First Amendment challenge under Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, 603 U.S. 707 (2024), or show likelihood of success on the merits regarding the vagueness challenge to the Communications Decency Act.”...