Today, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion holding that publicly-traded corporations have a First Amendment right to hide whether their products contain conflict minerals from the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo..[Two] of the panel’s three judges took a broad Supreme Court precedent disfavoring business First Amendment challenges to disclosure rules—which the full D.C. Circuit had ringingly endorsed just last summer—and held that it only applies to advertising... Free Speech For People and our amicus partner Global Witness...will review the decision and determine next steps.

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