AP offers this report, which begins: “A federal judge has ruled that parts of Rhode Island’s campaign finance laws regarding ballot questions are unconstitutional. In a ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres struck down provisions that banned corporations, including non-profit entities, from contributing money to groups advocating for or against the passage of ballot questions. The judge also eliminated a $10,000 cap on donations from individuals or groups to organizations supporting or opposing questions on the ballot.” You can find the opinion here (via Rhode Island Law Blog).
The court sidestepped the question whether Austin has overruled Bellotti on the constitutionality of limits on expenditures in ballot measure elections. (See fn. 8 of the opinion, p. 19.)