WOLFSON v. CONCANNON

No. 11-17634.

811 F.3d 1176 (2016)

Randolph WOLFSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Colleen CONCANNON; Louis Frank Dominguez; Peter J. Eckerstrom; George H. Foster; Gustavo Aragon, Jr.; Roger Barton; S' Lee Hinshaw; David Stevens; J. Tyrell Taber; Lawrence F. Winthrop, in their official capacities as members of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct; Anna Mary Glaab; Maret Vessella, Chief Bar Counsel of the State Bar of Arizona, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided January 27, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita Y. Milanovich (argued) and James Bopp, Jr. , The Bopp Law Firm, Terre Haute, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Paula S. Bickett (argued), Chief Counsel, Civil Appeals; Thomas C. Horne and Mark Brnovich , AZ, Attorneys General; Charles Grube , Senior Agency Counsel, Tempe, AZ, for Defendants-Appellees Commission Members.

Kimberly A. Demarchi and Peter R. Wand , Lewis and Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendant-Appellee Maret Vessella.

Igor V. Timofeyev , Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, D.C.; George W. Abele , Paul Hastings LLP, Los Angeles, CA; George T. Patton, Jr. , Bose McKinney & Evans LLP, Washington, D.C.; Karl J. Sandstrom , Perkins Coie LLP, Washington, D.C.; Joshua L. Kaul , Perkins Coie LLP, Madison, Wisconsin, for Amicus Curiae Conference of Chief Justices.

Randolph Sherman and Robert Grass , Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, New York; Richard F. Ziegler and Justin O. Spiegel , Jenner and Block, New York, New York; Matthew Menendez and Alicia L. Bannon , New York, New York; Hayley Gorenberg , New York, New York; and J. Gerald Hebert and Megan P. McAllen , Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, Arizona Judges' Association, American Judicature Society, Justice at Stake, Campaign Legal Center, and Lambda Legal Defense.

Robert W. Ferguson , Attorney General, and Alan D. Copsey , Deputy Solicitor General, Olympia, Washington, for Amicus Curiae States of Washington, Hawai'i, and Oregon.

Opinion by Judge Gould; Concurrence by Judge Berzon.


OPINION

Plaintiff-Appellant Randolph Wolfson, an Arizona state judicial candidate in 2006 and 2008, challenges several provisions of the Arizona Code of Judicial Conduct regulating judicial campaigns. Specifically, Wolfson challenges: (1) the Personal Solicitation Clause, Rule 4.1(A)(6)1

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