United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit brought against Arizona and officials challenging the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act, an appeal from dismissal for failure to state a cause of action is dismissed as moot where: 1) one plaintiff, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, had terminated its political action committee (PAC) after judgment; and 2) none of candidate plaintiffs raised a live controversy.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2007
• Published 05/10/2007

Judges

• Before:  JOHN T. NOONAN, RONALD M. GOULD, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tim Keller, Esq., Scott G. Bullock, Esq., Institute for Justice, Phoenix, AZ, Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Deborah Goldberg, Esq., Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Timothy M. Hogan, Esq., Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, Phoenix, AZ, Joy E. Herr-Cardillo, Esq., Tucson, AZ, for Intervenors-Appellees., Craig W. Soland, Peter A. Silverman, Esq., Office of the Arizona, Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Appellees.