AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: School Prayer, Peyote, Civil Rights Act Of 1964

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 025
• Professor: Johnson

Document Summary

Political speech by a business supreme court struck down a massachusett"s statue prohibiting corporate political speech. In the first national bank of boston v. bellotti 1978 the. In austin v. michigan chamber of commerce 1990 the supreme. The court found that michigan did burden the exercise of free speech but that the state had a compelling state interest, which was to prevent corporate wealth from unfairly influencing election. Much more conservative court than bellotti and reverses a trend of allowing more political speech by corporations. A violation of free speech because he was forced to give financial support to some of the groups that he opposed. He argued a line of cases that due to free speech prohibited labor unions from collected labor money for certain political activities. The district court and the seventh circuit agreed with the student but the supreme court unanimously rejected this argument.