Ambika Kumar

After five years of largely failed state-level "online safety" regulations, the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the Committee on Energy and Commerce recently held a hearing...more On October 9, 2025, an en banc Ninth Circuit panel unanimously held that the denial of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is no longer immediately appealable in the Ninth Circuit under the...more The Supreme Court's landmark decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, No. 21-0576 (U.S. June 30, 2023) held that Colorado cannot force a website designer to create an expressive message antithetical to her beliefs. In so ruling,...more The future appears bright (or at least brighter) for the Supreme Court's seminal decision New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), after six Justices endorsed its core principles in a recent decision involving the...more