Legal Opinion
State v. Events International, Inc.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 16, 1987PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCOLNIK, Justice.
The plaintiff, State of Maine, appeals from a judgment entered by the Superior Court, Kennebec County, in favor of the defendants, Events International, Inc. (Events), a professional fundraising corporation, and its president, James Nordmark. The State’s action against the defendants was brought pursuant to 9 M.R.S.A. § 5012 (1980), which requires solicitors of funds for charitable organizations to disclose, at the time of solicitation, the financial allocations of contributions. Finding that section 5012 was unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment to the…
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