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The Supreme Court Opts to Decide Whether McCain-Feingold’s Campaign Finance Regulations Were Properly Applied to a Film Attacking Hillary Clinton, and to Ads for the Film<\/h1><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n

By JULIE HILDEN <\/h2>
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Monday, Nov. 24, 2008<\/td>\n\n <\/tr>\n <\/table>\n\n\n\n\n

On November 14, the Supreme Court granted review in an interesting and important First Amendment case. The case concerns a film about then-presidential-candidate Hillary Clinton entitled “Hillary: The Movie,” which was made available through cable TV video-on-demand (as well as in a few theaters), and the advertisements for that film.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

The question before the Court is whether the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law was constitutionally applied to the film and its ads, or whether the First Amendment trumps that law in the context of this application.<\/p>\n\n\n \n

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