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Christian Civic League of Maine, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission

REPLY to opposition to motion re MOTION for Preliminary Injunction

31 Cited authorities

  1. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

    376 U.S. 254 (1964)   Cited 6,906 times   36 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a public official or public figure can recover damages for defamation on a matter of public concern only if he proves that the speaker acted with actual malice

  2. R.A.V. v. St. Paul

    505 U.S. 377 (1992)   Cited 1,611 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding the government may not "license one side of a debate to fight freestyle, while requiring the other to follow Marquis of Queensberry rules"

  3. Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

    508 U.S. 49 (1993)   Cited 1,130 times   42 Legal Analyses
    Holding litigants immune from an antitrust claim under Noerr-Pennington immunity

  4. Babbitt v. Farm Workers

    442 U.S. 289 (1979)   Cited 1,857 times
    Holding a case justiciable even though the plaintiffs disavowed any intent to "propagate untruths"

  5. Mcconnell v. F.E.C.

    540 U.S. 93 (2003)   Cited 603 times   7 Legal Analyses
    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”

  6. California Transport v. Trucking Unlimited

    404 U.S. 508 (1972)   Cited 1,578 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding "the right to petition extends to all departments of the Government," including the courts

  7. N.A.A.C.P. v. Button

    371 U.S. 415 (1963)   Cited 2,198 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Virginia failed to "justify the broad prohibitions" imposed through a barratry law, but enjoining the statute only as applied to the politically oriented litigating efforts of the NAACP

  8. Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

    461 U.S. 731 (1983)   Cited 959 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the NLRB could not bar an employer from pursuing a well-grounded lawsuit for damages under state law

  9. Mine Workers v. Pennington

    381 U.S. 657 (1965)   Cited 1,623 times   20 Legal Analyses
    Holding that immunity extends to petitioning conduct “either standing alone or as part of a broader scheme”

  10. Eastern R. Conf. v. Noerr Motors

    365 U.S. 127 (1961)   Cited 1,884 times   24 Legal Analyses
    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

  11. Section 434 - Transferred

    2 U.S.C. § 434   Cited 193 times
    Requiring disclosure of "contributions ... expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate"

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

    11 C.F.R. § 114.10   Cited 16 times

    (a)General. Corporations and labor organizations may make independent expenditures, as defined in 11 CFR 100.16 , and electioneering communications, as defined in 11 CFR 100.29 . Corporations and labor organizations are prohibited from making coordinated expenditures as defined in 11 CFR 109.20 , coordinated communications as defined in 11 CFR 109.21 , or contributions as defined in 11 CFR part 100, subpart B. NOTE TO PARAGRAPH (a): Pursuant to SpeechNow.org v. FEC, 599 F.3d 686 (D.C. Cir. 2010)

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

    11 C.F.R. § 104.20   Cited 15 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Requiring disclosure of qualifying donors only if the donation "was made for the purpose of furthering electioneering communications"

  14. Section 109.20 - What does ''coordinated'' mean?

    11 C.F.R. § 109.20   Cited 7 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Defining "coordinated" similarly

  15. Section 100.134 - Internal communications by corporations, labor organizations, and membership organizations

    11 C.F.R. § 100.134

    (a)General provision. Any cost incurred for any communication by a membership organization, including a labor organization, to its members, or any cost incurred for any communication by a corporation to its stockholders or executive or administrative personnel, is not an expenditure, except that the costs directly attributable to such a communication that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate (other than a communication primarily devoted to subjects other than