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· 10/16/2013

Texans for Free Enterprise v. Texas Ethics Commission

Citations

  • 732 F.3d 535

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that Texas cannot ban corporate contributions to independent-expenditure-only committees
  • upholding a preliminary injunction on the basis that a law limiting contributions to independent expenditure groups was “incompatible with the First Amendment”
  • “[I]njunctions protecting First Amendment freedoms are always in the public interest.” (quoting Christian Legal Soc’y v. Walker, 453 F.3d 853, 859 (7th Cir. 2006))
  • “A preliminary injunction is an ‘extraordinary remedy.’”

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Judges: Smith, Dennis, Higginson

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