United States Eighth Circuit

Canon 5 of the Minnesota Code of Judicial Conduct, which restricts candidates for judicial office from certain partisan political activities regarding their candidacies and campaign efforts, is constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2001
• Published 04/30/2001

Judges

• Before WOLLMAN,JOHN R. GIBSON, and BEAM, and Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Bopp, Jr., Eric C. Bohnet, Thomas J. Marzen, Bopp & Coleson, Terre Haute, IN, Erick G. Kaardal, Mohrman & Kaardal, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, Tony P. Trimble, Matthew Wayne Haapoja, Trimble & Associates, Minnetonka, MN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., William F. Mohrman, Mohrman & Kaardal, P.A., Minneapolis, MN, for Plaintiff., Stephen B. Young, St. Paul, MN, for Amicus on Behalf of Minnesota Civil Liberties Union., George W. Soule, Bowman & Brooke, Minneapolis, MN, for Amici on Behalf of Minnesota State Bar Association., Michael Thomas Andrews, Vogel Law Firm, Bismarck, ND, Roy Schotland, Georgetown University Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, Brady C. Williamson, Lafollette & Godfrey, Madison, WI, for Amici on Behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices., Joseph C. Blanton, Jr., Blanton & Rice, Sikeston, MO, for Amici on Behalf of the Missouri Bar., Deborah Goldberg, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, for Amici on behalf of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law., Dennis Ronald Hansen, Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Amici on Behalf of State of Arkansas.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Bernard Levinger, Thomas Campion Vasaly, Attorney General's Office, St. Paul, MN,for Defendants-Appellees.