United States Ninth Circuit

The Alaska legislature's limitations on "soft" money campaign contributions was constitutional, but a limit on the value of volunteer professional services that an individual may donate to a political party was unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/04/2002
• Decided 08/12/2003
• Published 08/12/2003

Judges

• Before WOOD, JR.,D.W. NELSON, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Patton Boggs LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Republican National Committee., Glenn J. Moramarco, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York City, NY, for amici curiae Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold and Representatives Christopher Shays and Martin Meehan., Brenda Wright, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, for amicus curiae National Voting Rights Institute.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martin T. Schultz, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, for the defendants-appellants., Kenneth P. Jacobus, Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiffs-appellees.