Court Strikes Down Indiana's "Anti-Slating" Law
| In a victory for the Madison Center for Free Speech, a United State District Court on Monday declared that the First Amendment was violated by an Indiana law that prohibited the printing or distribution of a list of candidates expressing support for the candidates without their prior written consent. Federal Judge John Tinder found that requiring candidate consent caused a candidate's supporters to "lose the independent quality of their speech, as any slate they publish is now understood as having been licensed by the primary candidate in question," and also "deprives a candidate of the freedom to retain any neutrality or ambiguity with respect to his would-be supporters." |
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