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CALIFORNIA PRO-LIFE COUNCIL, INC. v. RANDOLPH

No. 05-15507.

507 F.3d 1172 (2007)

CALIFORNIA PRO-LIFE COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Liane RANDOLPH, Chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission; Philip Blair, FPP Commissioner; Sheridan Downey, III, FPP Commissioner; Eugene Huguenin, FPP Commissioner; Pamela Karlan, FPP Commissioner; Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed November 14, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Bopp, Jr. (briefed and argued), Richard E. Coleson (briefed), Terre Haute, IN, for the appellant.

Teri L. Block (argued), Luisa Menchaca (briefed), Lawrence T. Woodlock (briefed and argued), Fair Political Practices Commission General Counsel; Louis R. Mauro, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Catherine M. Van Aken, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Robert E. Leidigh, Deputy Attorney General, Kathryn Gimple (briefed), Sacramento, CA, for the appellees.

Trevor Potter, J. Gerald Hebert, Paul S. Ryan, Washington, DC; Daniel R. Ortiz, Charlottesville, VA, for amicus curiae Campaign Legal Center.

Rob McKenna, Attorney General, Nancy Krier, Senior Counsel, Olympia, WA, for amici curiae States of Washington, Arizona, Hawaii, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Oregon.

Before: JOHN T. NOONAN, RONALD M. GOULD, and JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge:

California Pro-Life Council, Inc. (CPLC) challenges certain provisions of California's Political Reform Act (PRA), including the PRA's definition of "contribution" and the recipient committee requirements imposed on a multi-purpose organization, such as CPLC. On cross-motions for summary judgment, the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Appellees (collectively referred to as California) and denied CPLC's motion for summary...

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