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Practice question: Tests to Determine Validity of Governmental Regulation

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Practice question

Under the four-part content-neutral test stated in Diocese, what relationship must the governmental interest have to suppression of expression?
  1. Suppression must be its only purpose.
  2. The interest must be unrelated to suppression of free expression.
  3. The interest must depend on hostility to one viewpoint.
  4. The interest need not exist at all.
  5. The interest must be a private speaker's desire to silence competitors.

Legal references

  • Diocese of Bacolod v. COMELEC, G.R. No. 205728, January 21, 2015, main decision, speech-regulation tests: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2015/jan2015/gr_205728_2015.html

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