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BEMIS PENTECOSTAL CHURCH v. STATE

731 S.W.2d 897 (1987)

BEMIS PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, Calvary Baptist Church, Englewood Baptist Church, First Assembly of God, First Baptist Church of Bemis, First Baptist Church of Jackson, Malesus Baptist Church, North Jackson Baptist Church, Northside Assembly of God, Popular Heights Baptist Church, Skyline Church of Christ, West Jackson Baptist Church, and Woodland Baptist Church, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. STATE of Tennessee, Michael Cody, the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, Jerry Woodall, District Attorney of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit of the State of Tennessee, and David Collins, State Election Coordinator of the State of Tennessee, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

May 26, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Michael W. Catalano, Andy D. Bennett, Deputy Attys. Gen., Nashville, Jerry Woodall, Dist. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for defendants-appellants.

Michael T. Tabor, Ivy E. Scarborough, Jackson, Lee Boothby, pro hac vice, Berrien Springs, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Robert C. Taylor, Brenda Measells Dowdle, Taylor, Schlater, Lassiter, Tidwell, and Trentham, Nashville, for Executive Bd. of Tennessee Baptist Convention.

Larry L. Crain, Brentwood, John W. Whitehead, Manassas, Va., for Rutherford Institute.

DROWOTA, Justice.

This case presents a constitutional challenge to the Campaign Financial Disclosure Act of 1980, T.C.A. §§ 2-10-101, et seq. (the Act). The Plaintiffs, thirteen churches in the Jackson area,1 brought this declaratory judgment action in the Chancery Court of Madison County, alleging that the Act violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States. Defendants...

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