1A AUTO, INC. v. DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN AND POLITICAL FINANCE

SJC-12413.

480 Mass. 423 (2018)

1A AUTO, INC., & another v. DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN AND POLITICAL FINANCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Manley , of Arizona ( Gregory D. Cote also present) for the plaintiffs.

Julia Kobick , Assistant Attorney General ( William W. Porter , Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the defendant.

Ben T. Clements , M. Patrick Moore, Jr. , Ryan P. McManus , John C. Bonifaz , Ronald A. Fein , & Shann M. Cleveland , for Common Cause & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


For more than a century, Massachusetts law, like Federal law, see 52 U.S.C. § 30118(a) (2012 & Supp. 2014), has prohibited business corporations from making contributions to political candidates or their campaigns. See St. 1907, c. 581. The plaintiffs here are business corporations that challenge Massachusetts's ban on corporate...

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