Citizens United lost in federal appeals court in their First Amendment case contesting New York’s laws requiring non-profits to to disclose their donors every year. They had argued that the law chilled speech, but the court found unanimously that the government had compelling interest in preventing fraud and self-dealing in charities and the laws helped them to achieve that end. (Constitutional Law Prof Blog, February 15, 2018, by Ruthann Robson)
The court also reaffirmed that in enforcing the law, New York Attorney General Eric Schneidman, a Democrat, was not applying the law “in anything but a uniformly content-neutral fashion.” (Reuters, February 15, 2018, by Jonathan Stempel)