HONEYFUND.COM INC, CHEVARA ORRIN, WHITESPACE CONSULTING LLC, d.b.a. Collective Concepts LLC, PRIMO TAMPA LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellees, versus GOVERNOR, STATE OF FLORIDA, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF FLORIDA, SENIOR CHAIR OF THE FLORIDA COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS, VICE CHAIR AND COMMISSIONER OF THE COMMISSION, MARIO GARZA, et al., Defendants-Appellants., 94 F.4th 1272

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HOLDINGS: [1]-The plaintiffs were properly granted a preliminary injunction enjoining a Florida law that sought to bar employers from holding mandatory meetings for their employees if those meetings endorsed viewpoints that the state found offensive because the plaintiffs were likely to prevail on the claim that the law violated the First Amendment; [2]-The law was an unlawful content and viewpoint based speech restriction in that, by limiting its restrictions to a list of ideas designated as offensive, the law targeted speech based on its content, and by barring only speech that endorsed certain ideas, it penalized certain viewpoints contrary to the First Amendment's protections; [3]-In addition to showing a likelihood of success on the merits, the plaintiffs suffered an irreparable injury from the law's First Amendment violation and an injunction was in the public interest.