Legal Opinion
Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce v. City of Long Beach
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 30, 2010No. 07-55691, 07-56081, 07-56190PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARD LAW, Circuit Judge:
“[I]t is our law and our tradition that more speech, not less, is the governing rule” under the First Amendment. Citizens United v. FEC, — U.S. -, 130 S.Ct. 876, 911, — L.Ed.2d - (2010). “More speech” often means “more money.” “This is because virtually every means of communicating ideas in today’s mass society requires the expenditure of money.” Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 19, 96 S.Ct. 612, 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976). Therefore, “[a] restriction on the amount of money a person or group can spend on political communication during a campaign necessarily reduces the…
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