McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
Although I am a computer science major in my undergraduate studies here at UC Berkeley, I have had it in the back of my mind since middle school that someday I might attend law school. In the past, I have discussed various decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on this blog. You can find a few of them if you go through the posts I've tagged with the label "law" . The majority of Supreme Court cases are actually quite boring; most are decided unanimously and concern areas of the law that will rarely interfere with one's everyday activities. In this series of posts I would like to visit a few miscellaneous Supreme Court cases that I have stumbled across that I have found quite captivating. The first one I'll do is McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995). As I'll explain later, although the case does not concern technology law, its relevance today extends to technology. I became curious about McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission when I rea...