第五巡回全院决定重审德州《SCOPE法》诉讼：三人小组意见被撤销，社媒未成年人过滤条款再成焦点
美国联邦第五巡回上诉法院10月28日发布命令，决定由全体在职法官组成的全院法庭（en banc）重审挑战德克萨斯州《SCOPE法》的合并诉讼（案号24-50721与25-50096）。一名法官要求就全院重审申请进行投票后，在职法官多数赞成重审；依据巡回规则41.3，今年7月24日三人小组作出的意见（184 F.4th 420）同时被撤销。法院书记官将另行排定补充陈述日程，口头辩论日期待定。
《SCOPE法》全称「通过父母赋权保护儿童上网法」，由德州第18号众议院法案于2024年9月1日生效，要求数字服务商对未成年用户实施内容监测与过滤（涵盖宣扬自杀、自残、饮食失调、药物滥用、霸凌等类别的内容）、限制定向广告，并设置年龄验证等要求。计算机与通信行业协会（CCIA）与 NetChoice 代表科技行业起诉州总检察长 Ken Paxton；学生组织「推动德州学生联盟」（SEAT）等则另案挑战同一法律。
被撤销的小组意见曾裁定：维持对监测过滤条款的初步禁令，认为该条款可能被《通信规范法》第230条优先适用而无效，但此结论仅适用于行业原告；学生联盟因起诉资格不足，其禁令被撤销；年龄验证条款的挑战则被最高法院在 Free Speech Coalition 诉 Paxton 案中的先例封堵。全院重审意味着上述结论全部归零，案件将由巡回法院全体法官重新裁定。
Fifth Circuit to Rehear Texas SCOPE Act Challenge En Banc, Vacating Panel Opinion That Kept Filtering Mandate Blocked
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on October 28 granted rehearing en banc in the consolidated challenges to Texas's SCOPE Act (Nos. 24-50721 and 25-50096). After a judge requested a poll, a majority of the circuit judges in regular active service voted in favor; under Fifth Circuit Rule 41.3, the three-judge panel opinion of July 24, 2026 (184 F.4th 420) is vacated. The Clerk will set a supplemental briefing schedule, and oral argument will be held on a date to be fixed.
The SCOPE Act — the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, enacted as Texas House Bill 18 and effective September 1, 2024 — requires digital service providers to monitor and filter content for known minors (covering categories such as material promoting suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, substance abuse, and bullying), restricts targeted advertising, and imposes age-verification duties. The Computer & Communications Industry Association and NetChoice sued Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of the tech industry, while Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (SEAT) and others challenged the law separately.
The vacated panel opinion had kept the preliminary injunction against the monitoring-and-filtering mandate in place as to the industry groups, holding it likely preempted by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act; it vacated the injunction as to the student plaintiffs for lack of standing; and it treated the age-verification challenge as foreclosed by the Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. En banc rehearing wipes those conclusions away for the full court to decide anew.
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