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AustIn Vs. Mich. Chamber of Comm.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 27, 1990

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  1. Buckley Vs. Valeo US Supreme Court · Jan 30, 1976
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  2. Machinists Vs. Street US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1961
  3. Cort Vs. Ash US Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1975
  4. United States Vs. Cio US Supreme Court · Jun 21, 1948
  5. Austin v. Mich
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  6. Chamber of Comm. - 494 U.S. 652 (1990) U.S. Supreme Court Austin v. Mich
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  7. Chamber of Comm., 494 U.S. 652 (1990) Austin v. Michigan
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  8. s requirements burden the Chamber's exercise of political expression, see FEC v. Massachusetts
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  9. benefits conferred by the corporate form and thus present the potential for distorting the political process. Cf. FEC v. National
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  10. of political speech and, if they do, whether they are narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest. Buckley v. Valeo
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  11. Id. at 424 U. S. 39 (quoting Williams v. Rhodes
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  12. corporation does not remove its speech from the ambit of the First Amendment. See, e.g., First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  13. U. S. 765 , 435 U. S. 777 (1978). This Court concluded in FEC v. Massachusetts
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  14. some regulation of their political expenditures to avoid corruption or the appearance of corruption. See FEC v. National
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  15. scope closely held corporations that do not possess vast reservoirs of capital. We rejected a similar argument in FEC v. National
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  16. whose political contributions and expenditures can constitutionally be regulated by the State. See Buckley v. Valeo
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  17. Communications Workers of Am. v. Beck
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  18. U. S. 735 , 487 U. S. 745 (1988). See also Abood v. Detroit
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  19. is therefore justified by the crucial differences between unions and corporations. v. Because
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  20. upon that right must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest. Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley
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  21. Bellotti, 435 U.S. at 435 U. S. 781 . See also Mills v. Alabama
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  22. post at 494 U. S. 713 (KENNEDY, J., dissenting), and as the author of our recent decision in FEC v. Massachusetts
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  23. U. S. 1 , 424 U. S. 39 (1976) (per curiam ) (quoting Page 494 U. S. 670 Williams v. Rhodes
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  24. represents, after all, his money -- in support of a particular political candidate. See id. at 260, citing FEC v. National
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  25. Right to Work Committee, 459 U. S. 197 , 459 U. S. 208 (1982), and Pipefitters v. United
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  26. n. 3, and we have upheld similar rules restricting the groups from whom PACs may solicit contributions. See FEC v. National
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  27. California Medical Assn. v. FEC
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  28. duty to protect the objecting Chamber member and corporate shareholder in the absence of state action, cf. Abood v. Detroit
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  29. and Stockholders' Rights Under the First Amendment, 91 Yale L.J. 235, 247 (1981). Cf. Communications Workers v. Beck
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  30. of corporations chartered within the State. CTS Corp. v. Dynamics
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  31. See First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  32. MCFL, 479 U.S. at 479 U. S. 258 , n. 11. Second, in light of our decisions in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  33. Consolidated Edison Co. v. Public
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  34. the proffered state interest actually underlies the law. See, e.g., Page 494 U. S. 678 The Florida Star v. B.J
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  35. FCC v. League
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  36. In FEC v. Massachusetts
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  37. opportunity for political speech that we invalidated in the state referendum context in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  38. We cited with approval in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  39. factors could be shown to exist, a group would be free to mount a First Amendment challenge on that basis. Cf. Buckley v. Valeo
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  40. at 494 U. S. 686 -687. We have already rejected this argument in the context of labor unions. See Abood v. Detroit
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  41. Ellis v. Railway
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  42. Rogers v. Hill
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  43. the distinction between individual expenditures and individual contributions that the Court identified in Buckley v. Valeo
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  44. state regulation of both expenditures and contributions. Moreover, as we recognized in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti
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  45. to political candidates or committees, or other means of influencing candidate elections. Cf. Pipefitters v. United
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  46. United States v. Automobile
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  47. of the others proscribe or limit spending for 'political' purposes, which may or may not cover referenda. See Schwartz v. Romnes
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  48. was the problem of corruption of elected representatives through the creation of political debts. See United States v. Automobile
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  49. Schwartz v. Romnes
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Austin v. Mich
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