Personal attacks on candidates are legally irrelevant to ballot measures
Evidence
The personal attacks concerning Hagan’s marital problems and Callinan’s financial circumstances bore no relationship, certainly none which could be considered reasonable, to the question whether the Poly High School property should be rezoned, the only subject before the voters. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1054
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1054
- XREF: connects to: Attack ads in judicial elections routinely distort candidates’ actual records — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 590