United States Fourth Circuit

The absolute ban on contributions and expenditures in the Federal Election Campaign Act, 2 U.S.C. S 441b(a), and its implementing regulations, cannot constitutionally be applied to a non-profit charitable organization that has no shareholders and whose earnings do not inure to the benefit of any individual.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2001
• Decided 01/28/2002
• Published 01/28/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WIDENER and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David Brett Kolker, Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant.  James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Lois G. Lerner, Acting General, Richard B. Bader, Associate General, Federal Election Commission, Washington, D.C., for defendant-Appellant.   Richard E. Coleson, James R. Mason, III, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, Indiana;  Paul Stam, Jr., Stam, Fordham & Danchi, P.A., Apex, North Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.