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U.S. top court preserves Alabama campaign finance curbs
Source: Reuters
POLITICS | Mon Apr 24, 2017 | 9:45am EDT
U.S. top court preserves Alabama campaign finance curbs
By Andrew Chung
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by an Alabama black-voter outreach group with close ties to the state's Democratic Party of a lower court's ruling that upheld a state ban on cash transfers between political action committees.
The Alabama Democratic Conference had asked the justices to review a September 2016 decision by the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the state and found that the law did not violate the organization's rights to free expression and free association under the U.S. Constitution.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)
U.S. top court preserves Alabama campaign finance curbs
By Andrew Chung
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by an Alabama black-voter outreach group with close ties to the state's Democratic Party of a lower court's ruling that upheld a state ban on cash transfers between political action committees.
The Alabama Democratic Conference had asked the justices to review a September 2016 decision by the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with the state and found that the law did not violate the organization's rights to free expression and free association under the U.S. Constitution.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-campaignfinance-idUSKBN17Q1E9
