9th Circuit Grants Trump’s Motion to Hold Oral Argument in Pasadena

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the motion of former President Donald Trump and five of his fellow plaintiff-appellants to move oral argument in their First Amendment appeal against Twitter and its former CEO Jack Dorsey to Pasadena, California, from San Francisco (see 2305110035), said a clerk’s order Thursday (docket 22-15961). “This case will be placed on the next available Pasadena calendar,” said the order. Twitter and Dorsey took no position on the motion. The plaintiffs’ Los Angeles-based lead counsel asked for the venue change to reduce his out-of-pocket expenses. Trump alleges his First Amendment rights were violated when Twitter permanently banned him for engaging in constitutionally protected speech.