United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit challenging the constitutionality of a Washington statute prohibiting contributions of more than $800 to a political committee making expenditures in a recall campaign, the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction prohibiting Washington from enforcing its limitation is affirmed, where: 1) the plaintiffs satisfied their burden to demonstrate that the contribution limit was likely an unconstitutional and harmful burden on their rights of free speech under the First Amendment; and 2) the district court properly exercised its discretion in concluding that all other factors necessary for issuance of the injunction were present.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2012
• Published 01/19/2012

Judges

• Fisher

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert M. McKenna, Jeffrey P. Helsdon