Latest Developments in Montana Contribution Limits Case Posted on September 2, 2015 (September 3, 2015) On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order denying Montana’s petition for rehearing en banc in Montana’s contribution limits case. Ron Fein provides a quick background and our analysis after the jump.Read More
Corporations Continue to Claim Constitutional Rights in Seattle Living Wage Case Posted on September 2, 2015 (September 2, 2015) This Tuesday, lawyers argued before a federal appeals court panel in Seattle, to contend whether the city’s new minimum wage violates the equal protection rights of franchised business corporations. Free Speech For People filed an amicus brief in support of the city, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause protects people, not corporations, and in particular that living wages were a central concern of the Fourteenth Amendment’s drafters. Our local counsel in Seattle, Harry Williams, attended the oral argument and submits this report.Read More
FSFP Launches New Blog To Lift Up Republican Voices Against Money In Politics Posted on September 1, 2015 (September 9, 2016) Free Speech For People recently launched acrosstheaisle.us as an interactive blog to share the thoughts of more than 150 Republican officials, prominent at the federal and state level, who oppose Citizens United. Read More
Free Speech For People and Public Good Law Center File Amicus Brief in Support of Vermont Consumers’ Right to Know What’s in Their Food Posted on September 1, 2015 (October 2, 2018) On Monday, Free Speech For People and the Public Good Law Center filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, defending a Vermont law (Act 120) that requires food sold in Vermont and produced with genetic engineering to be labeled “produced with genetic engineering.”Read More