United States Ninth Circuit

A provision of Idaho's Voluntary Contributions Act (VCA), Idaho Code section 44-2004(2), which prohibits any payroll deductions for "political activities," as applied to local government employers, violates the First Amendment because it is a content-based law for which state officials asserted no compelling justification.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/09/2007
• Decided 10/05/2007
• Published 10/05/2007

Judges

• TASHIMA, Circuit Judge:, Before:  WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Clay R. Smith, Idaho Deputy Attorney General, Boise, ID, for the defendants-appellants., Jeremiah A. Collins, Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiffs-appellees.