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Buckley v. Valeo (1976)  [Findlaw]

Secondary Link Buckley v. Valeo  [Legal Information Institute]
Argument Date 11/10/1975
Decided 1/30/1976
Majority Opinion per curiam (Stevens, J., not participating)
Concurring Opinion Burger, C.J., White, J., Marshall, J., Blackmun, J., Powell, J., & Rehnquist, J. (all concurring & dissenting in part)
Dissenting Opinion Burger, C.J., White, J., Marshall, J., Blackmun, J., Powell, J., & Rehnquist, J. (all concurring & dissenting in part)
Lower Court Distict of Columbia Court of Appeals
Oral Arguments Oral Arguments  [Oyez]
Lawyers
For Petitioner
Ralph K. Winter, Jr., pro hac vice, Joel M. Gora, & Brice M. Clagett

For Respondent
Deputy Solicitor General Friedman, Archibald Cox, Lloyd N. Cutler, & Ralph S. Spritzer

For United States
With Mr. Friedman on the brief for appellees Levi and the Federal Election Commission were Attorney General Levi, pro se, Solicitor General Bork, & Louis F. Claiborne.

For Amicus
Archibald Cox for Hugh Scott et al.

Attorney General Levi, pro se, Solicitor General Bork, and Deputy Solicitor General Randolph filed a brief for appellee Levi and for the United States

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Daniel H. Lowenstein, Howard F. Sachs, & Guy L. Heinemann for the California Fair Political Practices Commission et al

Marguerite M. Buckley for the Los Angeles County Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party

Thomas F. Monaghan for James B. Longley

Vincent Hallinan for the Socialist Labor Party

News Stories & Commentary
Editorial, New York Times, "Campaigns Unlimited," February 4, 1976
Editorial, Wall Street Journal, "The Half-Dead Monster," February 2, 1976
Editorial, Washington Post, "Campaign Finance: Second Thoughts," February 2, 1976
Other
Abrams, Floyd, SPEAKING FREELY: TRIALS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT (2005), pp. 234, 239-241, 253-254, 260-264, 269

Adamany, D.W., & Agree, G.E., POLITICAL MONEY: A STRATEGY FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCING IN AMERICA (1975)
Barron, Jerome & Dienes, C. Thomas, FIRST AMENDMENT LAW (2nd ed., 2000), pp. 281-290
BeVier, Lillian, "Money & Politics: A Perspective on the First Amendment & Campaign Finance Reform," 73 California Law Review 1045 (1985)
BeVier, Lillian, “Campaign Finance Reform: Specious Arguments, Intractable Dilemmas," 94 Columbia Law Review 1258 (1994)
Blum, "The Divisible First Amendment: A Critical Functionalist Approach to Freedom of Speech & Campaign Spending," 58 New York University Law Review 1273 (1983)
Briffault, Richard, "Issue Advocacy: Redrawing the Elections/Politics Line," 77 Texas Law Review 1751 (1999)
Congressional Research Service, "Campaign Finance Regulation Under the First Amendment: Buckley v. Valeo and Its Supreme Court Progeny"

Craig R. Smith, in FREE SPEECH ON TRIAL (2003), Richard A. Parker, ed., pp. 202-217

Dworkin, Ronald, "The Curse of American Politics," New York Review of Books, October 17, 1996
Polsby, Daniel B., "Buckley v. Valeo: The Special Nature of Political Speech," 1976 Supreme Court Review 1
Rosencranz , Joasua, editor, IF BUCKLEY FELL: A FIRST AMENDMENT BLUEPRINT FOR REGULATING MONEY (2000)
Smith, B.A., , "Faulty Assumptions & Undemocratic Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform," 105 Yale Law Journal 1049 (1996)
Sullivan, Kathleen, "Against Campaign Finance Reform," 1998 Utah Law Review 311
Sullivan, Kathleen, "Political Money & Freedom of Speech," 30 University of California Davis Law Review 663 (1997)
Wilcox, C., & Joe, W., "Dead Law: The Federal Election Finance Regulations, 1974-1996, " 31 Political Science & Politics 14 (1998)
Wright, Skelly, "Money & the Pollution of Politics," 82 Columbia Law Review 609 (1982)
Wright, Skelly, "Politics & the Constitution: Is Money Speech?," 85 Yale Law Journal 1001 (1976)
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