USAID v. Alliance for Open Society International (2013)

Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.
Argued April 22, 2013
Decided June 20, 2013
Full case nameAgency for International Development et al. v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., et al.
Docket no.12-10
Citations570 U.S. 205 (more)
133 S. Ct. 2321; 186 L. Ed. 2d 398; 2013 U.S. LEXIS 4699; 81 U.S.L.W. 4476
Case history
PriorOn writ on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Alliance for Open Soc'y Int'l, Inc. v. U.S. Agency for Int'l Dev., 651 F.3d 218 (2d Cir. 2011) .
Holding
The Policy Requirement violates the First Amendment by compelling as a condition of federal funding the affirmation of a belief that by its nature cannot be confined within the scope of the Government program.
Court membership
Chief Justice
John Roberts
Associate Justices
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
MajorityRoberts, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor
DissentScalia, joined by Thomas
Kagan took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amends. I; U. S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act (2003)

Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc., 570 U.S. 205 (2013), also known as AOSI I (to distinguish it from the 2020 case), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court ruled that conditions imposed on recipients of certain federal grants amounted to a restriction of freedom of speech and violated the First Amendment.