6th Circuit Hears Arguments On State-Action Dispute Over Deleted Facebook Posts

(July 30, 2024, 2:48 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the state-action doctrine requires showing that an official has the authority to speak on behalf of the entity he represents and exercised that authority, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 29 heard oral arguments in a dispute over whether a public official’s deleting posts from his personal Facebook account where he posted about his job constitutes state action....