Editing The Babylon Bee v Castillo

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Babylon Bee v. Castillo''}}
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! Court
| U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico<ref name="complaint">[https://adflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/babylon-bee-v-castillo-2026-08-11-complaint.pdf Complaint, ''The Babylon Bee v. Castillo'', filed August 11, 2026]</ref>
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! Filed
| August 11, 2026<ref name="complaint" />
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! Plaintiff
| The Babylon Bee<ref name="complaint" />
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! Defendants
| New Mexico officials sued in their official capacities, including Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Attorney General Raúl Torrez.<ref name="complaint" />
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! Claims
| First and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to New Mexico HB 182.<ref name="complaint" />
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'''The Babylon Bee v. Castillo''' is a federal constitutional challenge to New Mexico HB 182's rules for AI-generated or digitally altered political media.<ref name="complaint" />

== Allegations ==
The Bee alleges that HB 182 compels disclaimers and authorizes penalties for protected satire, parody, memes, and political commentary.<ref name="complaint" /> It seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against enforcement of the challenged provisions.<ref name="complaint" />

== Procedural status ==
The complaint was filed on August 11, 2026; the case was newly pending as of that filing.<ref name="complaint" />

== Significance ==
The case tests whether a state may apply synthetic-media disclosure requirements to political satire and parody.<ref name="complaint" />

== See also ==
* [[News-Babylon-Bee-New-Mexico-AI-Satire-Lawsuit-2026|August 11, 2026 — Babylon Bee Challenges New Mexico AI Satire Disclaimer Law]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Deepfakes]]
[[Category:New Mexico]]
[[Category:District of New Mexico]]