VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC. v. SORRELL

Docket No. 98-9325.

221 F.3d 376 (2000)

VERMONT RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William H. SORRELL, in his official capacity as Vermont Attorney General; John T. Quinn, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; William Wright, in his capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Dale O. Gray, in his/her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Jan Paul, in his/her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Lauren Bowerman, in her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; James Hughes, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Linda P. Effel, in her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Joel W. Page, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; James D. McNight, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Jane Woodruff, in her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; James P. Mongeon, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Terry Trono, in his/her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Dan Davis, in his official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; Patricia Zimmerman, in her official capacity as Vermont State's Attorney; James F. Milne, in his official capacity as Vermont Secretary of State; Edward W. Haase, in his official capacity as Vermont Commissioner of Taxes, Defendants-Appellees, Vermont Public Interest Research Group; Common Cause/Vermont; League of Women Voters of Vermont; Rural Vermont; Seth Bongartz; Cheryl Rivers; Marjorie Powers, Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 15, 2000.

Amended July 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN (Glenn Willard, Bopp, Coelson & Bostrom, Terre Haute, IN, on the brief; Norman C. Smith, Bauer, Anderson & Gravel, Burlington, VT, of counsel), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Timothy B. Tomasi, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT (William H. Sorrell, Attorney General of the State of Vermont, Eve Jacobs-Carnahan, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Jonathan S. Abady, Emery, Cuti, Brinckerhoff & Abady, PC, New York, N.Y. (Brenda Wright, John C. Bonifaz, National Voting Rights Institute, Boston, MA, on the brief; Peter F. Welch, Welch, Graham & Manby, Burlington, VT, of counsel), for Intervenors-Defendants-Appellees.

Daniel Manatt, Washington, DC, submitted a brief in support of affirmance of the judgment of the district court for Amicus Curiae Public Disclosure, Inc.

Before: JACOBS and SACK, Circuit Judges, and SHADUR, District Judge.


Judge SHADUR dissents in a separate opinion.

SACK, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff, the Vermont Right to Life Committee, Inc. ("VRLC"), challenges the constitutionality of three provisions of Act No. 64, a law enacted by the State of Vermont in 1997 to reform its system of campaign financing. VRLC is a non-profit membership organization whose stated purpose is "to ac[h]ieve universal recognition of the sanctity of human...

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