United States Third Circuit

In a government watchdog's section 1983 suit, challenging the constitutionality of a statute mandating confidentiality in proceedings before the State Ethics Commission, district court's grant of a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the statute is affirmed as, section 1108(k), to the extent it prohibits a complainant from disclosing his own complaint and the fact that is was filed, unconstitutionally constrains political speech in violation of the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/11/2010
• Decided 07/22/2010
• Published 07/22/2010

Judges

• ROTH, J.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Aaron D. Martin