First Amendment Censorship Claims Against Stanford Internet Observatory Can Go Forward to Discovery as to Jurisdiction and Standing

Judge Doughty : Suit stems from Defendants ' alleged participation in censoring Plaintiffs' speech on social media.

Plaintiffs allege that Defendants were active participants, if not architects, of a vast censorship scheme.

The court didn't agree with plaintiffs that they had conclusively established that the federal court in Louisiana had personal jurisdiction over defendants.

Aspen is alleged to have a "coordinating role in the EIP/VP's censorship activities challenged herein" Plaintiffs attach emails supportive of this alleged censorship coordination to their Complaint .

Plaintiffs have "demonstrated the necessity of [jurisdictional] discovery," on the issue of standing.