221830P.pdf   01/08/2024  Animal Legal Defense Fund  v.  Kimberly Reynolds
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  22-1830
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Central   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Grasz and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Constitutional law (First Amendment). For the court's prior 
   opinion in the matter, see Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds, 8 F.4th 
   781 (8th Cir. 2021), where the court ruled that a provision of Iowa law 
   prohibiting making a false statement or misrepresentation in an employment 
   application was insufficiently tailored and unconstitutional because it 
   encompassed statements that were not material to an employment decision. 
   Iowa passed a new law - Iowa Code Sec. 717A.3(b)(1)(a)-(b)(2019) - 
   addressing the issue and several organizations challenged the new law. The 
   district court concluded that an intent requirement rendered the new law 
   view-point-based and a violation of the First Amendment because it 
   targeted speakers who have negative views of agricultural production 
   facilities. The state officials appeal. Held: The Iowa statute is not a 
   viewpoint=based restriction on speech, but rather a permissible 
   restriction on intentionally false speech undertaken to accomplish a 
   legally cognizable harm.