United States Tenth Circuit

In a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law requiring that any group of two or more persons that had accepted or made contributions or expenditures exceeding $200 to support or oppose a ballot issue must register as an issue committee and report the names and addresses of anyone who contributes $20 or more, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where there was virtually no proper governmental interest in imposing disclosure requirements on ballot-initiative committees that raised and expended so little money, and that limited interest cannot justify the burden that those requirements imposed on such a committee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2010
• Published 11/09/2010

Judges

• Harris M. Hartz

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven M. Simpson, Monica M. Marquez