Florida Right to Life v. Lawson Lamar

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• holding that a Florida campaign finance provision prohibiting political candidates from making financial contributions to certain organizations was facially unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments
• explaining that under “the interpretive canon of expressio unius est exclusio alterius . . . the expression of one thing implies the exclusion of another” (quotation omitted)
• applying the canon of expressio uni-us est exclusio alterius — “under which ‘the expression of one thing implies the exclusion of another’ ” — to conclude that explicit statutory exceptions “imply the exclusion of all other possible exceptions” (citation omitted)
• “That is, if the definition of “contribution” in § 106.08(5

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