United States Second Circuit

In a First Amendment challenge to a prohibition on contributions by certain law-firm employees to candidates for Connecticut Attorney General, district court judgment is affirmed where: 1) the challenged contractual bar on campaign contributions has not been enforced in over six years and cannot reasonably be expected to be reimplemented, and thus plaintiff's requested relief of a declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and a cease-and-desist order are moot; and 2) defendant is entitled to qualified immunity from plaintiff's claim for damages as there was no clearly established right under the First Amendment to receive campaign contributions during the relevant period.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2009
• Published 08/11/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  KATZMANN and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen Lee Torre, Law Offices of Karen Lee Torre, New Haven, CT, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory T. D'Auria, Associate Attorney General (Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Susan Quinn Cobb, Assistant Attorney General, Jane R. Rosenberg, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), Office of the Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, for Appellee.