SCOTT v. ROBERTS

No. 10-13211.

612 F.3d 1279 (2010)

Richard L. SCOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dawn K. ROBERTS, In Her Official Capacity as Interim Secretary of State of the State of Florida, Defendant-Appellee, Ira William McCollum, Jr., Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Enu Mainigi, George Williams Hicks, Jr., Carl Rowan Metz, Kannon Kumar Shanmugam, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, Henry D. Fellows, Jr., Eugenia W. Iredale, Fellows, Johnson & La Briola, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Charles M. Trippe, Moseley, Pritchard, Parrish, Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, for Scott.

John R. Beranek, Richard Edward Doran, Daniel Nordby, Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee, FL, for Roberts.

Christopher B. Lunny, Harry O. Thomas, Radey, Thomas, Yon & Clark, Tallahassee, FL, Carl J. Nichols, Annie L. Owens, Wilmer Hale, Washington, DC, for McCollum.

Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and PRYOR and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

In this emergency appeal from the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction, Richard Scott, who is a candidate for the Republican Party for Governor of the State of Florida, asks that we preliminarily enjoin the enforcement of a provision of the Florida Election Campaign Financing Act that he contends violates his rights, under the First and Fourteenth Amendments, to spend unlimited sums of his personal funds and private donations to his...

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