Computer & Communications Industry Ass’n v. Paxton

On July 6, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a one-sentence order declining to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the preliminary injunction against enforcement of Texas’s App Store Accountability Act. The decision was a disappointment for WLF, which had joined a coalition of amici to argue that the Fifth Circuit wrongly classified app stores as engaging solely in commercial speech. That holding threatens vast amounts of fully protected speech and allows a content-based law to take effect without full appellate review. WLF joined The Cato Institute, Chamber of Progress, Clay Calvert, The Competitive Enterprise Institute, Consumer Choice Center, The Developers Alliance, The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, The James Madison Institute, Parkview Institute, The Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Reason, Taxpayers Protection Alliance, and TechFreedom on the amicus brief.