Newell v. Velacruz

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying Thalheimer and Long Beach and invalidating a statute that placed limitations on contributions to organizations that engage in only independent expenditures
• adopting a narrowing gloss for “ ‘to influence’ ” and “ ‘for the purpose of influencing’ ” in a PAC definition without a state court decision on point
• collecting cases that “analyzed various definitions of ‘political 7 committee,’ which include the burdens associated with such 8 classification, and considered them to be ‘disclosure requirements’”
• “Any burden on [the government contractor] caused by the contribution ban is lessened because [the contractor’s] officers or employees . . . may themselves make contributions.”
• “[A] complete ban on contractor contributions—as opposed to a mere limit on the amount or a restriction on the type of contract—is also closely tailored . . . to alleviate a perception of government contractors receiving benefits for dollars.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).