United States Ninth Circuit

Oregon Ballot Measure 26's prohibition of payment to electoral petition signature gatherers on a piece-work or per signature basis did not violate the First Amendment, as applied, where plaintiffs failed to prove that the district court erred in determining that the measure did not severely burden their First Amendment rights, and defendant established that the measure serves an important regulatory interest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/22/2006
• Published 02/22/2006

Judges

• BEA, Circuit Judge., Before RAYMOND C. FISHER, RONALD M. GOULD, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ross A. Day, Tigard, OR, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David E. Leith, Office of the Oregon Attorney General, Salem, OR, for the appellees., Margaret S. Olney, Portland, OR, for the intervenor-appellees.