[EL] message from Reed Witherby: Mass SJC strikes down false-campaign-statements law

[Rick Hasen]

Reed Witherby <RWitherby at SmithDuggan.com <mailto:RWitherby at SmithDuggan.com>>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 5:08 PM
To: <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu 
<mailto:law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>>
Cc: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu <mailto:rhasen at law.uci.edu>>
Subject: Mass SJC strikes down false-campaign-statements law

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today held that a state law, 
Mass. G.L. c. 56, § 42, which made it a crime to publish a false 
statement about a candidate for public office, violates the right of 
free speech guaranteed by the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.  The 
unanimous decision in /Commonwealth v. Melissa Lucas/ can be found at 
this link:

http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/sjc/reporter-of-decisions/new-opinions/11830.pdf



Reed Witherby

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