Elrod v. Burns

Holding that local government could not constitutionally base public employment opportunities on political affiliation or nonaffiliation

Roberts v. United States Jaycees

Holding that infringement of the right to associate "may be justified by regulations adopted to serve compelling state interests, unrelated to the suppression of ideas, that cannot be achieved through means significantly less restrictive of associational freedoms"

Mcconnell v. F.E.C.

Holding BCRA survived exacting scrutiny, given the “important state interests” in “providing the electorate with information, deterring actual corruption and avoiding any appearance thereof, and gathering the data necessary to enforce more substantive electioneering restrictions”

McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Comm'n

Holding that anonymous speech is constitutionally protected

California Transport v. Trucking Unlimited

Holding "the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government," including the courts

First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti

Holding that campaign finance law prohibiting certain corporate donations violated the First Amendment

Roth v. United States

Holding that California obscenity statute was not preempted by federal law prohibiting the mailing of obscene material because the state law did not burden or interfere with the federal postal functions

Eastern R. Conf. v. Noerr Motors

Holding that antitrust laws do not apply to businesses combining to lobby the government, even where such conduct has an anticompetitive purpose and an anticompetitive effect, because the alternative "would raise important constitutional questions" under the First Amendment

Riley v. National Federation of Blind

Holding that the First Amendment prohibits state restriction on the amount a charity may pay a professional fundraiser

Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce

Holding that a segregated-fund requirement that did not explicitly carve out an MCFL exception could apply to a non-profit corporation that did not qualify for MCFL status

Rule 65 - Injunctions and Restraining Orders

Recognizing court's ability to enter emergency order with less than full adversary hearing and even, in appropriate circumstances, without notice

Section 501 - Exemption from tax on corporations, certain trusts, etc

Granting tax-exempt status to qualified pension plans

Section 431 - Transferred

Exempting news stories, commentaries, and editorials from FECA's definition of "expenditure"

Section 441b - Transferred

Stating that "[i]t is unlawful for . . . any labor organization to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any election at which presidential and vice presidential electors or a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, Congress are to be voted for, . . . or any labor organization to consent to any contribution or expenditure by the . . . labor organization . . . prohibited by this section."

Section 434 - Transferred

Requiring disclosure of "contributions ... expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate"

Section 527 - Political organizations

Subjecting 501(c) organizations to income tax for campaign activities

Section 1 to 18 - Repealed or Omitted

Authorizing the Attorney General to order deportation of resident alien following certain criminal convictions

Section 441 - Repealed

Observing that federal law forbids unions from directly contributing to candidates

Section 114.10 - Corporations and labor organizations making independent expenditures and electioneering communications

Section 104.20 - Reporting electioneering communications (52 U.S.C. 30104 (f))

Requiring disclosure of qualifying donors only if the donation "was made for the purpose of furthering electioneering communications"

Section 114.2 - Prohibitions on contributions, expenditures and electioneering communications