Ninth Circuit upholds Seattle, Washington law preventing a candidate from referring to his opponent in a voter pamphlet

The opinion in Cogswell v. City of Seattle is here. (Link via How Appealing.) Applying First Amendment doctrine, the court determined that the ballot pamphlet was a limited public forum and that the limitation preventing references to one’s opponents was reasonable:

    The restriction in SMC 2.14.060(C), that a candidate’s statement

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