Next week, the Supreme Court will hear argument in a key consolidated case about the First Amendment and donor disclosure laws. Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez asks whether a policy of the California attorney general’s office that requires charities to disclose the names and addresses of their major donors violates the First Amendment. Cindy Lott, Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and Academic Program Director for Nonprofit Management Program at the School of Professional Studies, and Brian Hauss, a staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, discuss this case and its potential implications for nonprofit organizations, campaign finance, free speech, and more.
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Cindy Lott is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and also serves as Academic Program Director for Nonprofit Management Program at the School of Professional Studies. She previously served as Executive Director and Senior Counsel to the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School, and was the developer and lead counsel to the Charities Regulation and Oversight Project from 2006-2015. She joined a brief of law professors filed in the case in support of the respondent.
Brian Hauss is a staff attorney with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Brian was previously a staff attorney with the ACLU Center for Liberty, where he focused on combating religious refusals to comply with anti-discrimination laws. He also spent two years as the ACLU’s William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow. He co-authored an ACLU brief filed with a coalition of other organizations in the case in support of petitioner.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Patterson (1958)
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
- Brief Amici Curiae of The American Civil Liberties Union, et al, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez
- Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars of the Law of Non-Profit Organizations in Support of Respondent, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez
This show was produced by Jackie McDermott, Lana Ulrich, and Diana Allen, and engineered by Kevin Kilbourne. Research was provided by Mac Taylor and Lana Ulrich.
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