Professor Volokh Comments on Supreme Court Ruling on Petitioners' Rights in Los Angeles Times Article

October 25, 2009 -- Professor Eugene Volokh commented in a Los Angeles Times article on a recent Supreme Court ruling to block the release of the names of people in Washington state who signed a petition seeking to repeal a same-sex partnership law.

First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh of UCLA questioned whether petition signers have a constitutional right to anonymity.

"As a matter of 1st Amendment law, you have the right to speak anonymously but you don't have a constitutional right to essentially engage in a legally significant action anonymously," he said. "The state can demand you identify yourself on a petition, and at that point it seems the state is entitled to publish it."

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