On Sept. 5 Ohio Southern District Court Judge George C. Smith ruled to allow the Ohio Right to Life Society (ORTL) air advertisements mentioning the name of a political candidate within 30 days of an election. The decision prohibits the state of Ohio from enforcing a state campaign finance law restricting corporate funding of messages that mention a candidate in the weeks before an election (electioneering communications) as it related to the two specific ORTL ads at issue. The judge denied their request to also block enforcement of provisions requiring disclosure of those who fund the ads. ORTL planned to run ads June 2008 through December 2008 on Ohio Senate Bill 174, which would generally ban the practice of human cloning in Ohio. The preliminary injunction decision protects ORTL, allowing them to run these ads while the case is pending.