The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday issued an order temporarily staying an injunction blocking Montana's campaign finance law. Montana's campaign finance law law limits the...
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Montana on Wednesday ruled that a state law that limits campaign contributions violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment...
DC Circuit reverses ruling allowing campaign donor disclosure regulations
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday reversed a district court ruling in favor of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) which had permitted regulations requiring the disclosure...
Montana high court okays corporate personhood ballot initiative, strikes down tax referendum
The Supreme Court of Montana on Friday ruled that its state's November ballots may include Initiative 166 , a nonbinding policy statement that would direct the state's congress to support an amendment to the...
Sixth Circuit strikes down Ohio law restricting doctors' campaign contributions
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday struck down a portion of an Ohio law that prohibited doctors who treat Medicaid patients from contributing to the...
Federal appeals court reverses ruling that corporations can donate to campaigns
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday that a district court erred in holding that corporations can contribute directly to political campaigns. The Fourth Circuit held that the Supreme Court's decision...
The US Supreme Court on Monday issued a per curiam opinion , striking down a century-old campaign finance law in Montana that restricts the amount of money corporations can spend on campaigns. In American Tradition Partnership,...
Ninth Circuit strikes down ban on political ads on public television
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday struck down parts of a federal statute that prohibit public broadcasters from transmitting public issue and political advertisements. The suit was brought by the...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Loewenstein of the University of Colorado Law School says that while the SEC clearly has the authority to require reporting companies to disclose information regarding their political expenditures, a better course of action may be to...
JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law says that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is bound to cause tremendous amounts of litigation and to be challenged as unconstitutional or in violation of the Voting Rights...
