Federal Communications Commission v. League Of Women Voters

468 U.S. 364 (1984)

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Nature of the Case

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Facts

Congress passed a law that forbids any noncommercial educational broadcasting station that got a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to engage in editorializing. The League of Women Voters challenged this act as abridging the freedom of speech or the press in violation of the First Amendment.