Legal Opinion
Brian Majors v. Marsha Abell
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 2003No. 02-2204PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPosner, Circuit Judge
An Indiana statute, challenged in this suit as an abridgment of free speech, requires that political advertising that “expressly advocat[es] the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate” include “adequate notice of the identity of persons who paid for ... the communication,” Ind. Code §§ 3 — 9 — 3—2.5(b)(1), (d), and makes violation a misdemeanor. The' district court dismissed the suit for lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction on the ground that the noncandidate plaintiffs lacked standing and that as to the candidate plaintiffs the suit was moot.
The noncandidate plaintiffs…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Honig v. DoeSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Dunn v. BlumsteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Murphy v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by103 opinions
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