W.Va.'s Privacy Law Flouts 1st Amendment, 4th Circ. Told

By Jared Foretek ( March 13, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT) -- News organizations and free speech advocates are backing major data brokers in their challenge to a West Virginia law prohibiting the publication of home addresses and phone numbers for judicial and law enforcement officers, telling the Fourth Circuit the law should be subject to — and fail under — strict scrutiny review....

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