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1A AUTO, INC. v. DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN AND POLITICAL FINANCE

SJC-12413.

480 Mass. 423 (2018)

1A AUTO, INC., & another v. DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF CAMPAIGN AND POLITICAL FINANCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 6, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Manley, of Arizona (Gregory D. Cote also present) for the plaintiffs.

Julia Kobick, Assistant Attorney General (William W. Porter, Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the defendant.

Ben T. Clements, M. Patrick Moore, Jr., Ryan P. McManus, John C. Bonifaz, Ronald A. Fein, & Shann M. Cleveland, for Common Cause & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

For more than a century, Massachusetts law, like Federal law, see 52 U.S.C. § 30118(a) (2012 & Supp. 2014), has prohibited business corporations from making contributions to political candidates or their campaigns. See St. 1907, c. 581. The plaintiffs here are business corporations that challenge Massachusetts's ban on corporate...

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