BUCKLEY v. VALEO

No. 75-1061.

519 F.2d 821 (1975)

James L. BUCKLEY, United States Senator from the State of New York, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Honorable Francis R. VALEO, Secretary, United States Senate, et al., Defendants. Center for Public Financing of Elections, et al., James C. Calaway of Houston, Texas, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1975.

As Amended August 29, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brice M. Clagett, Washington, D. C., and Ralph K. Winter, Jr., New Haven, Conn., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, with whom John R. Bolton and Arthur F. Fergenson, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for plaintiffs Buckley and others.

Joel Gora, New York City, for plaintiff New York Civil Liberties Union.

Ralph S. Spritzer, Sp. Counsel to the Federal Election Commission, Philadelphia, Pa., with whom John G. Murphy, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., and Paul Bender, Sp. Counsel, Philadelphia, Pa., were on the brief, for defendant Federal Election Commission.

Lloyd N. Cutler and Paul J. Mode, Jr., with whom William T. Lake, Roger M. Witten, Washington, D. C., and Patricia D. Douglass, San Francisco, Cal., were on the brief, for intervening defendants Center for Public Financing of Elections, League of Women Voters of the United States, and others.

Kenneth J. Guido, Jr., with whom Fred Wertheimer, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for intervening defendants Common Cause and John W. Gardner.

Dennis G. Linder, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Morton Hollander and David J. Anderson, Attys., Dept. of Justice, were on the brief, for defendants Atty. Gen. of the United States and Federal Election Commission.

G. Roger King, Washington, D. C., for Senator Lee Metcalf as amicus curiae.

Stuart M. Nelkin, Houston, Tex., and Al J. Daniel, Jr., Washington, D. C., entered appearances for intervening plaintiff Calaway.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, McGOWAN, TAMM, LEVENTHAL, ROBINSON, MacKINNON and WILKEY, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.


BAZELON, Chief Judge, filed a separate opinion dissenting from Part V-A-2 of the per curiam opinion.

TAMM, Circuit Judge, joined by WILKEY, Circuit Judge, dissenting from the per curiam opinion, and concurring in the result only of Part V.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge, filed a separate opinion dissenting from Part VII of the per curiam opinion.

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