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MOWLES v. COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS AND ELECTION PRACTICES

Docket: Cum-07-235

958 A.2d 897 (2008)

2008 ME 160

Michael D. MOWLES Jr. v. COMMISSION ON GOVERNMENTAL ETHICS AND ELECTION PRACTICES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 21, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Lourie, Esq., Cape Elizabeth, ME, Zachary L. Heiden, Esq. (orally), Portland, ME, for Michael D. Mowles, Jr.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Phyllis Gardiner, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Augusta, ME, for the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] In this election law dispute, the following question is presented: does 21-A M.R.S. § 1014-A (2007), the Maine statute that requires a political candidate to obtain and recite, in any political advertisements, the explicit authorization received from an endorser in order to use that endorsement, impermissibly abridge a political candidate's freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We conclude...

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