INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Chicago-based veterans advocacy group’s seven-year struggle to strike down Indiana’s ban on political robocalls has ended after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court ruling upholding the law.
The Supreme Court on Monday denied Patriotic Veterans Inc.’s bid for review of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ January ruling upholding the law that prohibits sending pre-recorded message calls to telephones without prior consent.
Patriotic Veterans challenged the law in 2010, saying it violated the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Attorney General Curtis Hill said the law prevents telemarketers from becoming a nuisance.
Patriotic Veterans President Paul Caprio said Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s denial of review could lead to similar legislation in other states. His group now places automated calls in 35 states.
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“Patriotic Veterans” is a non profit contributions to which are non-deductible. They have less than $5k in assets yet brought in over $130k in donations. They show expenses greater than their income. That’s from 2013, sounds more like this group just fleeces the patriotic for personal income. I’m amazed that they got this to the Supremes.
It doesn’t seem like they are actually a big enough fish for this challenge…got to wonder who else is standing back of them.
On further reading it seems they don’t solicit from the Robo calls they just try to influence veterans opinions on public policy issues. Their stance on these issues and where their funding comes from is not clear from any of their public statements.
So, still not buying it.