Amicus Brief

Colorado law authorizes private citizens to bring campaign finance enforcement actions. Anyone—including a speaker’s political opponents—can allege a violation and trigger the adjudicative process; ...

Appellants are five friends who were unable to advocate publicly for the passage of a pending ballot initiative because two Mississippi laws prevented them ...

Hawaii Has, Despite This Court’s Precedents, Applied PAC Status To Groups Engaged In Minimal Independent Political Speech. The State of Hawaii has applied political ...

Limiting the Burdens of PAC Status to Groups with the “Major Purpose” of Express Advocacy was the Result of a Considered Effort to Preserve ...

It is well established that “the First Amendment ‘has its fullest and most urgent application’ to speech uttered during a campaign for political office.’” ...

The First Amendment protects the right to privately associate with others, and to jointly advocate concerning the issues of the day. Yet, in the ...

FSI’s Member Firms Are Composed of Independent Contractors Who Operate Their Own Businesses, Which Differentiates Them From Other Market Participants. IBDs typically maintain dual ...

Without This Court’s Intervention, the Major Purpose Test Is Poised to Become a Dead Letter. This Court has long limited the imposition of federal ...

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 ...