United States DC Circuit

In a challenge to the Federal Elections Commission's (FEC) draft advisory opinion concluding that under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), plaintiff would be required to organize as a "political committee" as defined by 2 U.S.C. section 431(4) and would be subject to all the requirements and restrictions concomitant with that designation, the order is affirmed in part where the additional burden that would be imposed on plaintiff if it were required to comply with the organizational and reporting requirements applicable to political committees was not too much for the First Amendment to bear. However, the order is reversed in part where the government had no anti-corruption interest in limiting contributions to an independent expenditure group such as plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/26/2010
• Published 03/26/2010

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• United States DC Circuit

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