Eastern Connecticut Citizens Action Group v. Arthur B. Powers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an administrative fee was unconstitutional where the government entity did not produce evidence that the fee charged was equal to the administrative costs of the regulation
• “Licensing fees used to defray administrative expenses are permissible, but only to the extent necessary for that purpose.”
• “state’s concern [regarding] damage claims from neighboring landowners ... may be addressed through existing civil and criminal sanctions for trespassing, vandalism, and so on”
• $200 fee and insurance requirement were not narrowly tailored as applied to those “demonstrably unable to comply and whose speech is therefore chilled by state action”
• permit fee violates First Amendment where government fails to prove that the fee charged is equal to the cost incurred in processing permit
• permit fee violates First Amendment where government fails to prove that the fee charged is equal to the cost incurred in processing permit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).