Cell phone industry loses First Amendment challenge to consumer protection law Posted on July 9, 2019 (June 18, 2020) Corporate Abuse of Power On July 2d, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld mandatory consumer safety warnings for cell phones against a corporate First Amendment challenge by the cell phone industry’s lobbying group. For more details on the background of this case, see our blog post from 2015. The following blog post about the newRead More
Victory: Corporate Challenge to Contribution Ban Fails as U.S. Supreme Court Lets Massachusetts Decision Stand Posted on June 3, 2019 (June 18, 2020) Defending Key Reforms We recently celebrated a victory as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear 1A Auto, Inc. v. Sullivan, a challenge to a Massachusetts state law banning corporate contributions to political candidates. Free Speech For People worked with Common Cause Massachusetts on an amicus brief in the state supreme court. The corporate challenge Massachusetts has prohibitedRead More
Key Win in the Fight Against Corporate Corruption in Politics Posted on September 20, 2018 (September 20, 2018) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently upheld one of the Commonwealth’s most critical tools in protecting the integrity of its elections: a century-old ban on corporate contributions to state and local candidates. In reaching its decision in 1A Auto v. Sullivan, the court noted that its ruling would be consistent with Supreme Court precedent, every FederalRead More
ExxonMobil: Free Speech is For People, Not Corporations Posted on June 29, 2016 (June 29, 2016) Free Speech For People is taking on ExxonMobil’s misuse of the First Amendment to try to hide from accountability under the law. Read More
Laurence Tribe & Scott Greytak: “Get foreign political money out of US Elections” Posted on June 22, 2016 (June 22, 2016) Our Scott Greytak and Harvard Law Professor, Laurence Tribe, co-authored an op-ed posted to The Boston Globe on how foreign political money and U.S. political spending.Read More
FSFP Joins Global Witness In Brief Addressing “Conflict Minerals” and First Amendment Claims By Corporations Posted on December 11, 2014 (June 15, 2016) (Photo via Global Witness) We’re pleased to join Global Witness Limited in an important brief pushing back against a First Amendment claim by the National Association of Manufacturers and other corporate interests. The case comes from a provision of the federal Dodd-Frank Act addressing “conflict minerals” from the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo. AsRead More