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COLORADO COMMON CAUSE v. MEYER

No. 86SC279.

758 P.2d 153 (1988)

COLORADO COMMON CAUSE, the Colorado affiliate of Common Cause, a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation, and Rosalie Schiff, a qualified elector of the State of Colorado, Petitioners, v. Natalie MEYER, in her official capacity as Colorado Secretary of State, and Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, a Colorado corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

May 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Buchanan, Gray, Purvis & Schultze, Ross B.H. Buchanan, Andrew W. Loewi, Denver, Greene, O'Reilly, Broilett, Paul, Simon, McMillan, Wheeler & Rosenberg, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioners.

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Maurice Knaizer, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondent Natalie Meyer.

Holland & Hart, Peter C. Houtsma, Steven C. Choquette, Denver, for respondent Colorado Ass'n of Commerce and Industry.

QUINN, Chief Justice.

The question in this case is whether for-profit corporations which make contributions, contributions in kind, or expenditures to or on behalf of a state political campaign out of their ordinary corporate treasuries are "political committees" within the meaning of Colorado's Campaign Reform Act of 1974, §§ 1-45-101 to -121, 1B C.R.S. (1980 & 1987 Supp.), and are thus required to comply with...

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