Center for Az v. Az Secretary of State

Summary

The court held that plaintiffs failed to state legally viable facial challenges to the Voters’ Right to Know Act under Arizona’s free-speech and privacy provisions, including their overbreadth and vagueness theories. It adopted an overbreadth doctrine under the Speak Freely Clause and established an Arizona-specific framework for compelled electoral disclosures, but concluded that plaintiffs had not alleged a concrete burden affecting a substantial number of the Act’s applications. The court further held that plaintiffs adequately pleaded an as-applied free-speech claim, while failing to plead a viable as-applied privacy claim.