Alabama Education Association v. State Superintendent of Education, Eta L

DUBINA, Chief Judge:

This appeal comes to us following the district court’s entry of a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of Alabama Act No. 2010-761 (the “Act”). This Act would prohibit a state or local government employee from arranging “by payroll deduction or otherwise” the payment of any contribution to an organization that uses any portion of those contributions for “political activity.” The district court found that the statute impinges on important free speech rights protected by the First Amendment and that the Appellees — the Alabama Education Association (“AEA”) and other…