First Amendment challenge against 11 C.F.R. § 102.14(a), an FEC regulation that prohibited the use of the names of federal candidates by unauthorized political committees in any name under which a committee conducts activities, unless the name clearly and unambiguously shows opposition to the named candidate under 11 C.F.R. § 102.14(b)(3). In addition, a claim that the regulation violated the Administrative Procedure Act as applied.
The court concluded the regulation was a content-based speech restriction that was not narrowly tailored.