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Impact of Supreme Court Arizona PAC case quickly felt in Florida

June 30, 2011 By Ken Tinkler

A 5-4 decision of the United States Supreme Court in Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC et al. V. Bennett, Secretary of State of Arizona, et al. holding that Arizona’s matching funds law substantially burdened political speech and was not sufficiently justified by a compelling interest to survive First Amendment scrutiny quickly impacted Florida law.  As I wrote about back in August, then candidate Rick Scott had challenged the constitutionality of Florida’s matching funds law and a Federal judge had granted a temporary injunction as to provisions that capped Scott’s spending and gave his primary competition matching funds for any spending over that cap.  As noted by the Supreme Court, portions of Florida’s law were similar to Arizona’s.  The Orlando Sentinel is now reporting that, in light of the Supreme Court decision, the Judge has made his injunction permanent.

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