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· 5/14/2014

Wisconsin Right to Life State v. Timothy Vocke

Citations

  • 751 F.3d 804
  • 2014 WL 1929619

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that the Supreme Court has engaged in “application of the constitutional-avoidance doctrine to address . . . overbreadth concerns”
  • recognizing that “[t]he appellate stage of the litigation process is not the place to introduce new evidentiary materials”
  • explaining that “the ‘unless’ clause” in “unless such construction is reasonable and readily apparent” is an “important federalism principle [that] should be invoked sparingly and with caution”
  • explaining that “the ‘unless’ clause” in “unless such construction is reasonable and readily apparent” is an “important federalism principle [that] should be invoked sparingly and with caution”
  • applying exacting scrutiny to review rule that 8 imposed “PAC‐like disclosure program” on “independent 9 disbursement organizations”
  • “Vague or overbroad speech regulations carry an unreasonable risk that speakers will self-censor, so the First Amendment requires more vigorous juridical scrutiny.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Posner, Flaum, Sykes

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