United States Ninth Circuit

A Nevada statute, requiring certain groups publishing "any material or information relating to an election, candidate or any question on a ballot" to reveal on the publication the names and addresses of its financial sponsors, is facially unconstitutional where it violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2002
• Decided 08/06/2004
• Published 08/10/2004

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  BROWNING, HUG, JR., and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Allen Lichtenstein and JoNell Thomas, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kateri Cavin, Victoria Thimmesch Oldenburg, and Paul G. Taggart, Office of the Attorney General, Carson City, NV, for the defendants-appellees.