Amicus Brief

The First Amendment right to protest is threatened by harassing lawsuits that seek to hold activists accountable for actions at public events they neither ...

Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, the use of automatic dialing or prerecorded calls to cell phones is generally prohibited. The Federal ...

“Speech concerning public affairs is more than self-expression; it is the essence of self government[,]” and heightened constitutional protections apply to such expressions regardless ...

“The First Amendment bars subtle as well as obvious devices by which political association might be stifled.” Those participating in the boycotts restricted by ...

The Institute for Free Speech’s amicus brief asks a federal court to allow an Arkansas citizen to make campaign contributions within legal limits. Arkansas ...

This case, Thompson v. Hebdon, challenges Alaska’s $500 per election cycle limit on contributions from individuals to legislative and gubernatorial candidates. It also challenges ...

Maryland’s law requires press entities and Internet advertisers to amass vast amounts of information—every buyer of advertisements and their underlying donors—in order to possibly ...

Like contributions and expenditures, a law firm’s pro bono representation of a citizen activist facilitates political speech and is thus protected by the First ...

Political boycotts combine associational and expressive activities that are each protected by the First Amendment. And, just as the political boycott is more than ...

In August 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a 37-year old Federal Election Commission regulation that limited donor ...