Amicus Brief

In October of 2013 Wisconsin prosecutors, using the state’s John Doe statute that bars subpoena targets from disclosing the contents of the subpoena’s, launched ...

Amicus Curiae the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) submits this brief to address the limited issue of the scope of review of a Federal ...

This appeal, after nearly a decade of litigation, pits the rights of free speech and association against unbounded prosecutorial zeal. Fundamentally, in the record ...

A law prohibiting a newspaper from printing an advertisement regarding local government candidates, a cable television operator from airing an advertisement regarding presidential candidates, ...

Amicus writesto highlight additional evidence of the burden that Mississippi’s formation, registration, record-keeping, and reporting requirements impose upon small groups of individuals wishing to ...

Outside of Ohio, one might find it odd that a state government panel exists to determine the “truthiness” of campaign ads. However, under Ohio’ s ...

There is more than one way to impose a First Amendment harm. Ohio’s statute, which criminalizes false speech (as determined by the State), is ...

Ohio’s generalized false-statements provisions, OHIO REV. CODE §§ 3517.153 (complaint); 3517.21(B) & (B)(10) (any “false statement concerning a candidate”); 3517.22(B)(2) (any “false statement” concerning ...

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