Riley v. Nat'l Fed'n of the Blind of North Carolina

In Riley v. Nat'l Fed'n of the Blind of North Carolina, 487 U.S. 781, 101 L. Ed. 2d 669, 108 S. Ct. 2667 (1988), the United States Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a North Carolina charitable solicitations statute that defined a prima facie "reasonable fee" that a professional fundraiser may charge as a percentage of the funds solicited. 487 U.S. at 785-795. The Court held that the statute violated the First Amendment since it sometimes required the fundraiser to rebut a prima facie case that the solicitor's fee was unreasonable. See 487 U.S. at 793-95.