READER'S DIGEST ASS'N v. FED. ELECTION COM'N

No. 81 Civ. 596 (PNL).

509 F.Supp. 1210 (1981)

The READER'S DIGEST ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, John W. McGarry, Frank P. Reiche, Joan D. Aikens, Thomas C. Harris, Robert O. Tiernan, Vernon W. Thomson, William F. Hildenbrand and Edmund L. Henshaw, Jr., as Members of the Federal Election Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 19, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warshavsky, Hoffman & Cohen by David Cohen and Madelyn C. Littman, David Otis Fuller, Jr., and Ava K. Dopplet, New York City, for plaintiff.

Federal Election Commission by Charles N. Steele, Lawrence M. Noble and R. Lee Anderson, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

LEVAL, District Judge.

The Reader's Digest Association (RDA) sues to enjoin the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from proceeding with an investigation into whether RDA violated certain sections of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, 2 U.S.C. § 431 et seq., "by making expenditures to disseminate to other media outlets video tapes of a computer reenactment of Senator Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick...." According to the...

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