United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to the constitutionality of the "matching funds" provision of Arizona's Citizens Clean Elections Act, summary judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where the Act survived intermediate scrutiny because it bore a substantial relation to the State's important interest in reducing quid pro quo political corruption.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/12/2010
• Decided 05/21/2010
• Published 05/21/2010

Judges

• Before ANDREWJ. KLEINFELD, A. WALLACE TASHIMA, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen M. Hoersting, Center for Competitive Politics, Alexandria, VA, for amicus curiae Center for Competitive Politics.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nicholas C. Dranias, Goldwater Institute, Phoeniz, AZ, for plaintiffs-appellees., William R. Maurer, Institute for Justice, Seattle, WA, for plaintiffs-intervenors-appellees., Mary R. O'Gracy, Solicitor General of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, for defendants-appellants., Bradley S. Phillips, Munger, Tolles, & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, for defendant-intervenor-appellant.