United States Ninth Circuit

Election regulations that limit monetary contributions to independent expenditure committees are subject to strict scrutiny review and not a lower level of scrutiny for limits on contributions to political candidates.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/06/2001
• Decided 12/20/2001
• Published 12/20/2001

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  Alfred T. Goodwin, J. Clifford Wallace and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John C. Eastman,The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Orange, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel D. Kuperberg,Rutan & Tucker, Costa Mesa, California, for the defendant-appellee.