Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Assn. - 03-1164 (2005)
- Syllabus
- Opinion (Justice Scalia)
- Concurrence (Justice Thomas)
- Concurrence (Justice Thomas)
- Concurrence (Justice Breyer)
- Concurrence (Justice Breyer)
- Concurrence (Justice Ginsburg)
- Concurrence (Justice Ginsburg)
- Dissent (Justice Kennedy)
- Dissent (Justice Souter)
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
NOS. 03-1164 AND 03-1165
MIKE JOHANNS, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, et al., PETITIONERS
03–1164 v.
LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION et al.
NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN, INC., et al., PETITIONERS
03–1165 v.
LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION et al.
on writs of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit
[May 23, 2005]
Justice Kennedy, dissenting.
I join Justice Souter’s dissenting opinion, which demonstrates with persuasive analysis why the speech at issue here cannot meaningfully be considered government speech at all. I would reserve for another day the difficult First Amendment questions that would arise if the government were to target a discrete group of citizens to pay even for speech that the government does “embrace as publicly as it speaks,” post, at 11.
