Nearly two decades ago, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and its lawyers argued a case designed to test the limits on corporate spending in elections. They lost in the Supreme Court. But now the justices will hear arguments in September on whether to overrule that 19-year-old precedent. The two retired lawyers who argued Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce reminisce about the case and one of them prepares to do battle again.
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The case at the center of Citizens United
The National Law Journal
August 3, 2009
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