The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected the argument of the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity and the Thomas More Law Society that their First Amendment rights were violated by a California law requiring them to turn over their list of donors to the California attorney general, Election Law Blog's Rick Hasen reports. The groups said they should be exempted from the law because disclosure of their donors could cause them to be harassed.
The Ninth Circuit reversed the injunction that had been put in place by the district court. The Attorney General is not disclosing the information to the public.
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