Elonis v. United States, also known as the “Facebook free speech case,” will be heard by the Court in December of this year.
The case involves a man who began making disturbing statements on Facebook after his wife left him. He wrote, for example:
There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you. I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts. Hurry up and die, bitch, so I can bust this nut all over your corpse from atop your s...