NATIONAL RIFLE ASS'N v. FEDERAL ELECTION COM'N

No. 87-5373.

854 F.2d 1330 (1988)

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, Appellant, v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Gardiner, with whom A. Thomas Carroccio, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Jacqueline Jones-Smith, Atty., Federal Election Com'n, with whom Lawrence M. Noble, Gen. Counsel and Richard B. Bader, Associate Gen. Counsel, Federal Election Com'n, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STARR, BUCKLEY and D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STARR.

STARR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a lawsuit filed under the Federal Election Campaign Act, 2 U.S.C. §§ 431-455 (1982). The action arises out of protracted warfare before the Federal Election Commission pitting the National Rifle Association (NRA) against an organization whose animating purposes are decidedly unfriendly to those championed by the NRA. Specifically, the NRA challenges the...

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