Friday, October 13, 2017
Comments for FEC disclaimer policies:
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I incorporate by
reference my already filed comments on this issue, including as to
the 1998-AO-22 Leo Smith matter.
When you asked, once
before, for comments on whether the FEC should regulate the internet,
you received a then-record 1000 comments, mostly saying “Hands off
the Internet!” One of those was mine.
The current broad
disclaimer policy followed by the FEC is a First Amendment violation,
a willful intrusion into core political speech, and is unethical, for
those commissioners and staff who are lawyers.
Disclaimer policies are
unconstitutional under Talley v California and McIntyre v Ohio. This
is well established law. There is no qualified immunity for FEC
employees who conspire to violate Talley and McIntyre. [There may be
official immunity for some actions but not others.]
Reed v. Town of Gilbert
re-establishes that strict scrutiny is the standard of review.
Below, I have listed a series
of cases that mostly have upheld the right to political speech
without disclaimers.
A narrow disclaimer policy
could withstand heightened scrutiny, if it were limited to
corporations as per Citizens United, and foreign governments.
Robbin Stewart.
P O Box 29164
Cumberlaand IN 46229.
gtbear at gmail.com
Chronological
Table of disclaimer cases
1908
ex Parte Harrison, 110 S.W. 709 (Mo 1908)
1960
Talley v. California, 362 U.S. 60 (1960),
http://epic.org/free_speech/talley_v_california.html
1961
United States v. Scott (D.N.D.) 195 F. Supp. 440 (1961)
1964
Canon v. Justice Court for Lake Valley, 61 Cal.2d 446, 39 Cal.Rptr.
228, 393 P.2d 428 (1964),
1962
People v. Bongiorni, 205 Cal. App. 2d Supp. 856 (Sup. Ct. 1962)
People
v Drake (CA) cite missing
1968
Idaho v. Barney, 448 P.2d 195 (1968),
1969
Zwickler v Koota 389 U.S. 241 (1967), 290 F.Supp. 244, mooted 394
U.S. 103 (1969) sub nom Golden v Zwickler
1973
Opinion of the Justices, 306 A.2d 18 (Maine 1973)
1973
United States v. Insco, 365 F. Supp. 1308 (M.D. Fla. 1973)
1974
Miami Herald v Tornillo,
418
U.S. 241 (1974)
1974
In re Opinion of the Justices, 324 A.2d 211 (Del. 1974)
1974
New York v. Duryea, 351 NYS2d 978 (1974)
1974
Printing Industries of the Gulf Coast v. Hill, 382 F.Supp. 8011
(S.D.Tx 1974), 42 L.Ed.26 33 dismissed as moot.
http://openjurist.org/422/us/937/hill-v-printing-industries-of-gulf-coast
1975
Dennis v. Massachusetts, 329 N.E.2d 706 (Mass. 1975),
http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/368/368mass92.html
1976
State of Louisiana v. Fulton, 3.37 So.2d 866 (La. 1976)
1977
Wooley v. Maynard, 430 U.S. 705 (1977)
1978
State v. North Dakota Educ. Ass'n, 262 N.W.2d 731 (N.D. 1978)
1980
Schuster v. Imperial County Mun. Ct., 167 Cal. Rptr. 447 (Cal. Ct.
App.
1980),
cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1042 45.
http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%5CCA%5CCA2%5C1980%5C19800828_0040409.CA.htm/qx
1987
Illinois v. White, 506 NE2d 1284 (Ill. 1987)
http://il.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%5CIL%5CIL2%5Carchp%5C1987%5C19870220_0000193.IL.htm/qx
1987
Wilson v. Stocker, 819 F.2d 943, 950 (10th Cir. 1987);
199x
N.Dakota v. N.D. Ed. Assoc., 262 N.W.2d 731
http://www.ndcourts.com/court/opinions/612.htm
1995
FEC v. Survival Educ. Fund, Inc., 65 F.3d 285, 298(2d. Cir. 1995)
[upheld
disclaimers related to fraud]
1995
Louisiana. v. Moses, 655 So. 2d 779 (La. Ct. App. 1995)
1995
McIntyre v. Ohio, 514 U.S. 334 (1995)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-986.ZO.html
1995
ShrinkMo v. Maupin, 892 F. Supp. 1246 (E.D. Mo. 1995), aff'd, 71 F.3d
1422 (8th Cir. 1995),
http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/95/12/952857P.pdf
1996
W. Va. for Life, Inc. v. Smith, 960 F. Supp. 1036, 1042 (S.D. W. Va.
1996)
1997
Stewart v Taylor (S.D. Ind. 1997)
1997
ACLU of Georgia v. Miller, (977 F.Supp. 1228 (N.D.Ga 1997)
http://www2.bc.edu/~herbeck/cyberlaw.acluvmiller.html
1997
ACLU v. Reno, 117 S.Ct. 2329 (1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno_v._American_Civil_Liberties_Union
1997
ALA v. Pataki, 969 F.Supp 160 (1997)
http://www.loundy.com/CASES/ALA_v_Pataki.html
1998
Doe v. Mortham, 708 So.2d 929 (Fla.1998)
1998
Washington ex rel Public Disclosure v. 119 Vote No!, 957 P.2d 691
(1998)
1998
Riley v. Federation of the Blind, 487 U.S. 781 (1998)
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/487/781.html
1999
Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, 525 U.S. 182
(1999)
1999
Cyberspace v. Engler, 55 F.Supp.2d 737 (E.D. Mich 1999)
http://www.cyberspace.org/cyberspace/lawsuit/
1999
doublecheck dates Griset v. Fair Political Practices Commission, 69
Cal. App. 4th 818, 82 Cal. Rptr.2d 25 (1999), reversed on other
grounds,
2000
Anonymous v. Delaware, 2000 Del. Ch. Lexis 84 (2000),
2000
Citizens for Responsible Gov't State PAC v. Davidson, 236 F.3d 1174,
2000 (10th Cir. 2000);
2000
N.C. Right to Life, Inc. v. Leake, 108 F. Supp. 2d 498, 510 (E.D.
N.C. 2000)
2000
Vt. Right to Life Comm., Inc. v. Sorrell, 221 F.3d 376, 392 (2d Cir.
2000);
2000x
Doe v. 2theMart, 140 F.Supp.2d 1088,
2001
FEC v. Public Citizen, 268 F.3d 1283 (11th Cir. 2001),
2001
Melvin v Doe, 2001 Pa. Super. 33044 P.3d 1044 (2002)
2002
Tattered Cover v Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Co. 2002)
2002
Free Speech Coalition, Ashcroft v., 535 U.S. 234 (2002)
2002
Ogden v Marendt 264 F.Supp.2d 785 (S.D. Ind. 2003)
2003
Doe v. Texas, 2003 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 88 (Tex. Crim. App. May 14,
2003).
2003,
2004 Majors v. Abell, 317 F.3d 719 (7th Cir. 2003), 792 NE2d 18 (Ind.
2003), 361 F.2d 349 (2004),
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/153312903321578269?cookieSet=1&journalCode=elj
http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?caseno=02-2204&submit=showdkt&yr=02&num=2204A.P
2004
ACLU v Heller 378 F3d 979 (9th cir.
2004)
http://openjurist.org/378/f3d/979/american-civil-liberties-union-of-nevada-v-heller
2004
ACLU v. Ashcroft, _ U.S. _ (2004),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACLU_v._Ashcroft_(2004) see Doe v
Gonzales, 546 U.S. 1301 (2005),
2008
The Broward Coalition v. Browning (N.D. Fla. 2008)
2009
Center For Individual Liberty v Ireland 1:08-cv-00190 (W.D.WV 2009)
2009
Michael James Berger, aka Magic Mike v. City of Seattle (9th Cir.
2009)
2012
Hatchett v Barland, (E.D.Wi) , on appeal to 7th Cir.
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