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As we announced on Wednesday, FIRE authored an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider and reject the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Hosty v. Carter.

On Thursday, ¹û¶³´«Ã½app¹Ù·½â€™s brief was joined by two more terrific briefs asking the Court to consider and reject the Hosty decision.

The Student Press Law Center (SPLC) and attorney Richard M. Goehler authored a on behalf of the following organizations:

• Student Press Law Center
• American Society of Newspaper Editors
• Associated Collegiate Press
• Associated Press Managing Editors
• College Media Advisers
• College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers
• Community College Journalism Association
• Independent Press Association/Campus Journalism Project
• National Federation of Press Women
• National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
• National Newspaper Association
• Newspaper Association of America
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Society for Collegiate Journalists
• Society of Professional Journalists

A on behalf of journalism educators was prepared by attorneys Robert A. Long, Jr, and Kurt A. Wimmer of the law firm Covington and Burling. The parties to that brief are:

• Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
• Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
• Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment
• Pennsylvania State University College of Communications
• S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University
• Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression
• University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication
• University of Missouri School of Journalism

When so many prominent groups speak with a single voice condemning a Court of Appeals decision, I believe it’s time for the Supreme Court to intervene and set things right. I would like to thank all of the groups who joined any of these briefs for helping in the fight against this dangerous opinion! Keep your constitutional fingers crossed.