Rutenburg

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 MARIA RUTENBURG, Case No. 4:21-cv-00548-YGR

Plaintiff,

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: DISMISSAL

v. FOR LACK OF SUBJECT-MATTER

JURISDICTION

TWITTER, INC., Re: Dkt. Nos. 11, 15 Defendant.

12 TO MARIA RUTENBURG AND HER COUNSEL OF RECORD: YOU ARE HEREBY ORDERED TO SHOW CAUSE in writing why this case should not be dismissed for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. (See Dkt. No. 11 at 1 (“A fundamental flaw in Rutenburg’s entire case is that the claimed rights under the First Amendment (and the corollary claims under the Fourteenth Amendment) cannot be enforced against a private entity such as defendant Twitter, Inc.” (citing Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck, 139 S.Ct. 1921, 1928 (2019) (“The text and original meaning of those Amendments, as well as this Court's longstanding precedents, establish that the Free Speech Clause prohibits only governmental abridgment of speech. The Free Speech Clause does not prohibit private…