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FEDERAL ELECTION COM'N v. POLITICAL CONTRIB. DATA

No. 1779, Docket 91-6084.

943 F.2d 190 (1991)

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS DATA, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Bader, Associate Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C. (Lawrence M. Noble, Gen. Counsel, Vivien Clair, Federal Election Com'n, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

David C. Vladeck, Washington, D.C. (Public Citizen Litigation Group, Alan B. Morrison, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, Anne C. Vladeck, New York City of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Mitchell H. Bernstein, Washington, D.C. (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Thomas J. Casey, Roberto Iraola, of counsel), for amicus curiae Legi-Tech, Inc.

Before MESKILL, NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction that congress is presumed to have passed statutes which are constitutional. Thus, we are obliged to construe statutes to avoid constitutional problems whenever possible. See, e.g., DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida Gulf Coast Bldg. & Const., 485 U.S. 568, 575, 108 S.Ct. 1392, 1397, 99 L.Ed.2d 645 (1988); Lowe v. Securities and Exchange Comm'n...

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