Do you remember the massive Biden-era censorship case that was litigated mostly as Missouri v. Biden? I wrote about the case in several posts including “Walk away, Joe.”
The case resulted in a disappointing Supreme Court opinion that avoided the merits on the ground of standing in Murthy v. Missouri. I anticipated the result after the oral argument of the case which I summarized in “To the Supreme Court”(citing Professor Philip Hamburger’s article “Courting censorship”). John commented on the result in the post “Anticlimax.”
We now reach the point in the story that Aristotle called peripeteia, or a sudden reversal of fortune. Following up on his massive critique of administrative law, Professor Hamburger founded the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Professor Hamburger has written us to draw attention to the NCLA press release announcing the settlement and consent decree resolving Missouri v. Biden on favorable terms. This is the portion of the press release announcing the resolution (links omitted):