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Doug Smith, et al. v. Richard Stillie, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chair, Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-35612 · judgment March 15, 2024
Before the decision, modestly above the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a circuit split argued in the petition, and a petition filed soon after the judgment below, and down for a state or local-government respondent.
Questions presented
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Does Alaska’s requirement that individual donors file duplicative reports of their political contributions within 24 hours of making them—on pain of thousands of dollars in fines—violate the First Amendment?
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Do Alaska’s extensive on-ad disclosure requirements, which monopolize a majority of a given advertisement with government-mandated messages including the public naming of individual donors, violate the First Amendment?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Jacob H. Huebert
Liberty Justice Center
For respondent
Laura Frances Fox
Alaska Department of Law
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 6 conferences
Proceedings
- Nov 18 2024Petition DENIED.
- Nov 12 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2024.
- Nov 04 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2024.
- Oct 28 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/1/2024.
- Oct 15 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024.
- Sep 18 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2024.
- Sep 18 2024Reply of petitioners Doug Smith, et al. filed. (Distributed)
- Sep 04 2024Brief of respondents Richard Stillie, et al. in opposition filed.
- Sep 04 2024Brief of respondent Alaskans for Better Elections, Inc. in opposition filed.
- Aug 05 2024Response Requested. (Due September 4, 2024)
- Jul 31 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
- Jun 28 2024Waiver of right of respondents Richard Stillie, et al. to respond filed.
- Jun 28 2024Waiver of right of respondent Alaskans for Better Elections, Inc. to respond filed.
- Jun 13 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 17, 2024)