Court enjoins provisions regulating professional solicitor
A federal District Court in Connecticut has enjoined the state from enforcing some of the charitable solicitation act provisions regulating professional solicitors pending trial on the constitutionality of the rules. The Court has limited the scope of a preliminary injunction solely to enforcement against the plaintiff in the case, but the ultimate decision could impact the regulation of solicitors generally under state charitable solicitation registration acts. Plaintiff Adam Kissel claimed that the state’s charitable solicitation registration law violates his First Amendment right to engage in speech involving charitable fundraising. He claimed that the state’s definition of “solicitation...
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