Overmyer v. Lawyers Title Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that Illinois’ “ ‘pledges or promises’ clause ... is as overbroad as the ‘announce’ clause”
• “judges remain different from legislators and executive officials, even when all are elected, in ways that bear on the strength of the state’s interest in restricting their freedom of speech.”
• “[0]nly a fanatic would suppose that ... the principle of freedom of speech should be held to entitle a candidate for judicial office to promise to vote for one side or another in a particular case or class of cases.”
• Candidate Plaintiffs’ answers to interrogatory number 19

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).