Fred Woocher wrote:
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here: Metropolitan News-Enterprise Online
Rick: I forget how to mail to the entire listserve, so you might want to
send this decision from the California Court of Appeal issued today to the
list. It holds that under California law, express advocacy must be just that
in order to trigger reporting requirements and it refuses to adopt the Furgatch
test as the law in California. It will not only perhaps shake up the law
here in California, but might be a harbinger of the fate that awaits McCain-Feingold.
It also will cut into Davis' campaign fund slightly, since the defendants
will now be entitled to collect their attorneys' fees from his committee
under the anti-SLAPP statute.
Fredric D. Woocher
Strumwasser & Woocher LLP
(310) 576-1233
(By the way, to e-mail to the entire listserv, simply send a message to <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>--Rick)