Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
Justice Lewis Powell delivers majority opinion in First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (435 U.S. 765), establishing for first time that corporations have First Amendment speech rights to influence ballot initiatives and political campaigns. Powell’s 5-4 decision strikes down Massachusetts …
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Supreme Court of the United States
First National Bank of Boston
Francis X. Bellotti (Massachusetts Attorney General)
Corporate Interests
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