AFP Foundation v. Bonta
In 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that when a state “casts a dragnet for sensitive donor information from tens of thousands of charities each year, even though that information will become relevant in only a small number of cases,” it creates an unacceptable risk to those people’s right to join together with one another and violates the privacy necessary to protect that right.
CAse Documents
- Supreme Court Opinion
- AFPF’s briefs are here and here.
- An amicus brief by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Knight First Amendment Institute, Human Rights Campaign, and PEN America
- An amicus brief by Charity Navigator, The Nonprofit Alliance Foundation, PETA, Doctors Without Borders, Southern Poverty Law Center, and more than 120 other charities
- An amicus brief by 22 state Attorneys General
- An amicus brief by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
- An amicus brief by China Aid Association
- An amicus brief by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom to Read Foundation, National Coalition Against Censorship, and other free speech organizations.
- A sampling of other organizations who’ve joined in support of these rights.
