Reuters covered HLLI’s free speech win in Montana, where we secured a preliminary injunction preventing Montana state officials from enforcing the state’s restrictive laws on AI-generated political speech against our clients.
She issued a preliminary injunction, that would prevent prosecutors, as well as the state agency that monitors and enforces campaign finance and disclosure laws, the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, from investigating or prosecuting Bartel’s group for violating the law.
Watters declined to block all enforcement of the law, however, citing the US Supreme Court’s decision last year curtailing universal injunctions, saying a ruling in favor of the named plaintiffs alone would provide them with absolute relief.“We were pleased to see the district court recognize the timeless principle that free speech is essential to free and fair elections,” Adam Schulman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the conservative legal group the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, said in a statement.
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