Bemis Pentecostal Church v. State

DROWOTA, Justice.

This case presents a constitutional challenge to the Campaign Financial Disclosure Act of 1980, T.C.A. §§ 2-10-101, et seq. (the Act). The Plaintiffs, thirteen churches in the Jackson area, 1 brought this declaratory judgment action in the Chancery Court of Madison County, alleging that the Act violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States. Defendants are the State of Tennessee, the State Attorney General, the District Attorney General for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, and the Election Coordinator of the State of Tennessee.

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