United States Ninth Circuit

Challenged provisions in Montana campaign finance reform measures are sufficiently tailored to achieve the important state interest of preventing corruption in politics, and do not unduly burden protected speech and associational rights in violation of the First Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2002
• Decided 09/24/2002
• Published 09/24/2002

Judges

• Before:  ALARCÓN and SILVERMAN, Circuit Judges, and TEILBORG, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Bopp, Jr.,Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for the plaintiff-appellant., Eric C. Bohnet, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian M. Morris, Solicitor, Helena, MT, for the defendant-appellee.