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Analysis Overview	Issues Summary	Frequency Distributions	Crosstab Reports	Case Details

Supreme Court Detail

Case Name	WILLIAMS–YULEE v. THE FLORIDA BAR LEXIS \| Westlaw \| FindLaw \| CourtListener Note: FindLaw and CourtListener are free services.
Date Decision	April 29, 2015
Date Argument	January 20, 2015
Decision Type	opinion of the court (orally argued)
Citations	135 S. Ct. 1656 2015 U.S. LEXIS 2983 191 L. Ed. 2d 570
Docket	13-1499

Lower Court Detail

Court in which Case Originated	State Supreme Court Florida
Court whose Decision was Reviewed	State Supreme Court Florida
Petitioner	political candidate, activist, committee, party, party member, organization, or elected official
Respondent	attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association

Vote Detail

Issue/Legal Provision (1 of 1)	FIRST AMENDMENT Campaign Spending (cf. Governmental Corruption): CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT First Amendment (speech, press, and assembly)
Vote Coalition	5 - 4
Decision Direction	Liberal
Justice Votes	voted with majority or plurality Roberts Sotomayor Kagan regular concurrence Ginsburg Breyer dissent Scalia Kennedy Thomas Alito

Supreme Court Database Detail

SCDB ID

2014-055-01

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