Petition of the day
on Dec 8, 2014 at 10:11 pm
The petition of the day is:
Standard Furniture Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. International Trade Commission
14-139
Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, serves as counsel to the petitioner in this case, which is listed without regard to the likelihood that it will be granted.
Issue: (1) Whether a statute that denies a government benefit based on a recipient’s failure to express support for a proposed course of government action, is subject to, and survives, strict scrutiny under the First Amendment; and (2) whether, to successfully defend a viewpoint-discriminatory statute subject to intermediate scrutiny under Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission, the Government must prove that non-discriminatory measures would fail to satisfy the Government’s interests.
