Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of New York State Crime Victims Board

502 U.S. 105·1991

What the Court Decided

The Supreme Court struck down New York's 'Son of Sam' law requiring criminals' profits from accounts of their crimes to fund victim compensation, finding it was a content-based financial burden on speech that could not survive strict scrutiny.

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Cited In

TikTok, Inc. v. Garland

2024 Term · 24-656

Cited by TikTok to illustrate that even comparatively minor financial burdens on speech — like placing book proceeds in escrow — have been struck down as content-based, making TikTok's far greater burden of total shutdown all the more unconstitutional.